{"id":43165,"date":"2025-11-17T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43165"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:32:47","slug":"word-of-the-day-1072","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/17\/word-of-the-day-1072\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aurum<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Aurum<\/i>, the Latin word for\u00a0<a title=\"Gold\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gold\">gold<\/a>\u00a0and the source of its chemical symbol, &#8220;Au&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-white-house-gold-renovations-food-stamps-rcna242144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Donald Trump is selling fool\u2019s gold from the White House<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Hayes Brown, <em><strong>MS Now<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president\u2019s aurum-plated predilections have long been a punchline for others. In 1990, the Baltimore Sun reported that a new line of hotels in the region would provide \u201cluxury of a very different type than the Donald Trump model.\u201d The chain will \u201coffer luxury by inference,\u201d the hotel\u2019s general manager said. \u201cIt is achieved through attention to total comfort, rather than by gold fixtures and lots of fake marble in the bathrooms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A reminder that some of English&#8217;s roots are in the far fields of Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurum: Aurum, the Latin word for\u00a0gold\u00a0and the source of its chemical symbol, &#8220;Au&#8221; [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;Donald Trump is selling fool\u2019s gold from the White House,&#8221; Hayes Brown, MS Now: The president\u2019s aurum-plated predilections have long been a punchline for others. In 1990, the Baltimore Sun reported that a new \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/17\/word-of-the-day-1072\/\"> 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-43165","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\/43165","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=43165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43166,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions\/43166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}