{"id":38747,"date":"2023-05-20T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38747"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T17:04:30","slug":"word-of-the-day-886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/20\/word-of-the-day-886\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cerulean<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>deep blue in color<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/cerulean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25834370-100-these-bizarre-lights-in-the-sky-hint-at-a-way-to-predict-earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>These bizarre lights in the sky hint at a way to predict earthquakes<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Nathaniel Scharping, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (6 May 2023, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with trembling buildings and shaking trees, those caught in the quake also witnessed something substantially more eerie. A barrage of blue lights, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EYaCVWgB6XQ\">flashes of cerulean lightning<\/a>, lit up the night sky, apparently right above the fault line. This strange display was an example of what are known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328532-300-strange-skies-weird-earthquake-warning-lights\/\">\u201cearthquake lights\u201d<\/a>, a semi-mythical phenomenon that has cropped up in reports of tremors for centuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerulean: deep blue in color [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;These bizarre lights in the sky hint at a way to predict earthquakes,&#8221; Nathaniel Scharping, NewScientist (6 May 2023, paywall): Along with trembling buildings and shaking trees, those caught in the quake also witnessed something substantially more eerie. A barrage of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/20\/word-of-the-day-886\/\"> 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-38747","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\/38747","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=38747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38748,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747\/revisions\/38748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}