{"id":43301,"date":"2025-12-13T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43301"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:20:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-1078","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-1078\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dentil<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite architectural term \u2013 but dentil comes pretty close to the top of my list. Even if you didn\u2019t wonder about the similarity between dentil and dental (the word is derived from the Latin \u201cdentes,\u201d meaning teeth), looking at a neat, orderly band of blocks ornamenting a cornice just looks like teeth ready to chomp down on something tasty.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenstogables.com\/d-is-for-dentils-an-alphabet-soup-of-architectural-terms-part-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gardens To Gables<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit the link above for useful illustrations. Noted somewhere in this video from <em><strong>Our Restoration Nation<\/strong><\/em> hosted by Laine Berry:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FOR SALE! Madewood Plantation &amp; 18 Acres \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJZR7msQb5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dentil: I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite architectural term \u2013 but dentil comes pretty close to the top of my list. Even if you didn\u2019t wonder about the similarity between dentil and dental (the word is derived from the Latin \u201cdentes,\u201d meaning teeth), looking at a neat, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-1078\/\"> 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-43301","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\/43301","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=43301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43302,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43301\/revisions\/43302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}