{"id":42053,"date":"2025-03-06T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42053"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:57:43","slug":"word-of-the-day-1026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/06\/word-of-the-day-1026\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Precarity<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>the state of being uncertain or likely to get worse:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The older brother raised the younger one, a responsibility that gave him a perpetual sense of life&#8217;s precarity.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Despite the looming precarity ahead, I\u2019ve found my time at grad school to be quite rewarding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>etc&#8230;\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/precarity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26535320-400-gripping-account-of-how-plants-and-animals-shaped-each-other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Simon Ings, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (1 March 2025, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Author Riley Black] excels at conveying life\u2019s precarity. Life doesn\u2019t recover after extinction events, nor does it regenerate. It reinvents itself. Early on \u2013 425 million years ago, to be exact \u2013 we find life flourishing in strange lands, under skies so short of oxygen, fires can only smoulder and dead plants can\u2019t decompose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precarity: the state of being uncertain or likely to get worse: The older brother raised the younger one, a responsibility that gave him a perpetual sense of life&#8217;s precarity. Despite the looming precarity ahead, I\u2019ve found my time at grad school to be quite rewarding. etc&#8230;\u00a0[Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;Gripping \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/06\/word-of-the-day-1026\/\"> 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-42053","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\/42053","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=42053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42054,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053\/revisions\/42054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}