{"id":39686,"date":"2024-01-13T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39686"},"modified":"2024-01-13T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:23:41","slug":"word-of-the-day-933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/13\/word-of-the-day-933\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lithophone<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The closing moments of the film feature a performance of lithophones, sculpted sections of rock that produce wonderful sounds and harmonics when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5iBcn8vRoc\">they are hit by another, smaller rock<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and put me in a meditative mood. Having also heard how stars are born and revelling in cosmic dust, I was feeling spaced-out.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134721-700-celebrating-dark-skies-at-a-festival-in-deepest-denmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark<\/a><em>,&#8221; Alex Wilkins, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (6 January 2023, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the curious:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lithophone Demo\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0Rm32dTXBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithophone: The closing moments of the film feature a performance of lithophones, sculpted sections of rock that produce wonderful sounds and harmonics when\u00a0they are hit by another, smaller rock\u00a0\u2013 and put me in a meditative mood. Having also heard how stars are born and revelling in cosmic dust, I was \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/13\/word-of-the-day-933\/\"> 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-39686","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\/39686","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=39686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39687,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39686\/revisions\/39687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}