{"id":4163,"date":"2016-07-18T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2016-07-18T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:31:01","slug":"word-of-the-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/18\/word-of-the-day-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130803-400-face-to-face-in-the-arctic-with-a-terrifying-new-sublime\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hyperobject<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Climate change \u2013 its impact, complexity and persistence \u2013 is hard for human brains to parse. In his 2013 book <i>Hyperobjects<\/i>, the philosopher Timothy Morton described how \u201cthings that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans\u201d defy our intuition. Global warming is one such hyperobject: a panel about the ocean hinted at others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It stretches my brain. A little. A river would be another <em>hyperobject<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[edited &#8211; added link and the following.] Thanks to &#8220;Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime&#8221;, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a02 July 2016, amended online later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperobject. Climate change \u2013 its impact, complexity and persistence \u2013 is hard for human brains to parse. In his 2013 book Hyperobjects, the philosopher Timothy Morton described how \u201cthings that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans\u201d defy our intuition. Global warming is one such hyperobject: a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/18\/word-of-the-day-12\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-4163","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\/4163","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=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}