{"id":33793,"date":"2021-07-29T19:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T00:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33793"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T00:04:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/07\/29\/word-of-the-day-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pandiculation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing is for sure: stretching feels good, particularly after a long spell of being still. We aren\u2019t the only species to have worked this out. As anyone with a dog or cat will know, many animals take a deep stretch after lying around. This kind of stretching, called pandiculation, is so common in nature that some have suggested it evolved as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyworkmovementtherapies.com\/article\/S1360-8592(10)00190-7\/fulltext\">reflex to wake up the muscles<\/a>\u00a0after a spell of stillness.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25133430-300-the-lowdown-on-stretching-how-flexible-do-you-actually-need-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The lowdown on stretching: How flexible do you actually need to be?<\/a><em>&#8221; Caroline Williams, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (17 July 2021, paywall)]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandiculation: One thing is for sure: stretching feels good, particularly after a long spell of being still. We aren\u2019t the only species to have worked this out. As anyone with a dog or cat will know, many animals take a deep stretch after lying around. This kind of stretching, called \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/07\/29\/word-of-the-day-712\/\"> 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-33793","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\/33793","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=33793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33794,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33793\/revisions\/33794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}