{"id":32951,"date":"2021-05-11T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32951"},"modified":"2021-05-11T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:29:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/11\/word-of-the-day-681\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Playa<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Place yourself in the heart of the Great Plains, say, somewhere in the Texas Panhandle. A long, lonely stretch of interstate extends before you. Prairie grass and planted wheat cover the landscape out to the horizon, flat as a table in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not truly flat. Even on these plains there are low spots, the ground sloping almost imperceptibly toward slight, bowl-shaped depressions where the infrequent rains of this semi-arid environment collect. These are playas: wetlands that come and go, providing an oasis for life in an otherwise desiccated place.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/environment\/these-wetlands-feed-the-largest-aquifer-in-the-u-s-what-happens-if-we-lose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These Wetlands Feed The Largest Aquifer In The U.S. What Happens If We Lose Them?<\/a>&#8221; John Richard Saylor, <\/em><strong>Discover<\/strong><em> (May 2021)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Totally new to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playa: Place yourself in the heart of the Great Plains, say, somewhere in the Texas Panhandle. A long, lonely stretch of interstate extends before you. Prairie grass and planted wheat cover the landscape out to the horizon, flat as a table in all directions. But it\u2019s not truly flat. Even \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/11\/word-of-the-day-681\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32953,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32951\/revisions\/32953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}