{"id":35723,"date":"2022-04-19T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35723"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:14:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-786\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Palaeo-poetry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Professor Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University] stresses there is always a risk of pushing [fossil] footprint analysis too far in pursuit of a captivating story \u2013 what he calls \u201cpalaeo-poetry\u201d. It is tempting to argue that the woman hurried because she was wary of roaming sabre-toothed cats, but we will never know for sure. Still, footprints do pitch us closer than ever to the emotions of ancient people. <em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25433812-600-how-fossil-footprints-are-revealing-the-joy-and-fear-of-stone-age-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life<\/a>,&#8221; Colin Barras, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (9 April 2022, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, who could resist such a great word?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palaeo-poetry: [Professor Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University] stresses there is always a risk of pushing [fossil] footprint analysis too far in pursuit of a captivating story \u2013 what he calls \u201cpalaeo-poetry\u201d. It is tempting to argue that the woman hurried because she was wary of roaming sabre-toothed cats, but we \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-786\/\"> 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-35723","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\/35723","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=35723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35724,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723\/revisions\/35724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}