{"id":5967,"date":"2016-10-17T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T00:37:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/17\/word-of-the-day-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Placket<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <b>placket<\/b> is an opening in the upper part of <a title=\"Trousers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trousers\">trousers<\/a> or <a title=\"Skirt\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skirt\">skirts<\/a>, or at the neck or <a title=\"Sleeve\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleeve\">sleeve<\/a> of a garment.\u00a0Plackets are almost always used to allow clothing to be put on or removed easily, but are sometimes used purely as a design element. Modern plackets often contain fabric <a title=\"Facing (sewing)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facing_(sewing)\">facings<\/a> or attached bands to surround and reinforce <a title=\"Fastener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fastener\">fasteners<\/a> such as <a title=\"Button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Button\">buttons<\/a>, <a title=\"Snap fastener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snap_fastener\">snaps<\/a>, or <a title=\"Zipper\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zipper\">zippers<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Placket\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My wife, a former professional tailor, mentioned it today, and it&#8217;s a word I&#8217;d never heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placket: A placket is an opening in the upper part of trousers or skirts, or at the neck or sleeve of a garment.\u00a0Plackets are almost always used to allow clothing to be put on or removed easily, but are sometimes used purely as a design element. Modern plackets often contain \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/17\/word-of-the-day-27\/\"> 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-5967","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\/5967","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=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}