{"id":6408,"date":"2016-11-06T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2016-11-06T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T13:47:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/06\/word-of-the-day-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>syrinx<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the earliest syrinx, an arrangement of vibrating cartilage rings at the base of the windpipe, was still a long way from producing the lilting notes of a blackbird. Instead, the extinct duck relative that possessed the organ between 66 and 69 million years ago was only capable of honking (<i>Nature<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/brvv\">doi.org\/brvv<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>NewScientist<\/em><\/strong>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230962-100-first-birds-made-honking-sounds-more-than-66-million-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>First birds made honking sounds more than 66 million years ago<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (22 October 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>syrinx: But the earliest syrinx, an arrangement of vibrating cartilage rings at the base of the windpipe, was still a long way from producing the lilting notes of a blackbird. Instead, the extinct duck relative that possessed the organ between 66 and 69 million years ago was only capable of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/06\/word-of-the-day-34\/\"> 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-6408","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\/6408","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=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}