{"id":38177,"date":"2023-01-10T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38177"},"modified":"2023-01-10T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T02:47:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/10\/word-of-the-day-856\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posit<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed: &#8230;\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/posit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/01\/09\/t-rex-brain-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The T. rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Dino Grandoni, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist] Balanoff said she would like to see future research with updated fossil measurements. She also called the notion of the T. rex forming cultures a \u201creally fascinating idea\u201d but added, \u201cI don\u2019t know that we\u2019re quite there yet in being able to make this prediction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat being said, I welcome the positing of big ideas to drive science forward,\u201d Balanoff said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posit: to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed: &#8230;\u00a0[Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;The T. rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought,&#8221; Dino Grandoni, WaPo: [Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist] Balanoff said she would like to see \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/10\/word-of-the-day-856\/\"> 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-38177","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\/38177","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=38177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38178,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177\/revisions\/38178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}