{"id":4701,"date":"2016-08-20T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2016-08-20T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T17:41:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/20\/word-of-the-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an offline-only article in <em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> entitled &#8220;<em>Romans on the Bay of Naples,<\/em>&#8221; by Marco Merola,\u00a0comes the word <em>lapilli<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team of archaeologists and conservators worked to remove mud and <strong>lapilli<\/strong> (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">small stones ejected by a volcanic eruption<\/span>) and to expose and clean the stunning wall \u00a0paintings emerging from the debris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having been to <em><strong>Naples, Herculaneum, <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> Pompeii<\/strong><\/em> many years ago, I was fascinated by the article, picturing the work near the magnificent Bay of Naples, wondering just what the villa\u00a0looked like in its day.<\/p>\n<p>Before the <em>lapilli<\/em> started falling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an offline-only article in Archaeology entitled &#8220;Romans on the Bay of Naples,&#8221; by Marco Merola,\u00a0comes the word lapilli: A team of archaeologists and conservators worked to remove mud and lapilli (small stones ejected by a volcanic eruption) and to expose and clean the stunning wall \u00a0paintings emerging from the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/20\/word-of-the-day-15\/\"> 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-4701","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\/4701","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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}