{"id":35480,"date":"2022-03-11T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35480"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:33:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/11\/word-of-the-day-776\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Groyne<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a low wall built out from the coast into the sea, to prevent the repeated movement of the waves from removing parts of the land<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/groyne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25333753-600-rising-seas-could-submerge-rio-and-jakarta-by-2100-what-can-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 \u2013 what can we do?<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Simon Usborne, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (26 February 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But physical defences like these are expensive, impermanent and, in some cases, unintentionally harmful. Take groynes, structures built perpendicularly out from beaches into the sea. A series of these is good at stopping protective sediment such as sand from being washed away along the coast through a process called longshore drift, but it can actually increase erosion after the last groyne because this area receives less sand than it would otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groyne: a low wall built out from the coast into the sea, to prevent the repeated movement of the waves from removing parts of the land [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 \u2013 what can we do?&#8221; Simon Usborne, NewScientist (26 February 2022, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/11\/word-of-the-day-776\/\"> 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-35480","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\/35480","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=35480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35481,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35480\/revisions\/35481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}