{"id":7254,"date":"2016-12-18T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:54:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-59\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>inhumation jars<\/em><\/a>, my Arts Editor\u00a0asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How does this differ from an ossuary? Or is an ossuary just one type of inhumation jar?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; inhumation jars, which are buried ceramic vessels containing bones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from <em><strong>Wikipedia&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ossuary\" target=\"_blank\">ossuaries<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An <b>ossuary<\/b> is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human <a title=\"Skeleton\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skeleton\">skeletal<\/a> remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/inhume\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>inhumation<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is another word for interment or burial, so I think the difference is that an <em>ossuary<\/em> is above ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding inhumation jars, my Arts Editor\u00a0asks: How does this differ from an ossuary? Or is an ossuary just one type of inhumation jar? From the article: &#8230; inhumation jars, which are buried ceramic vessels containing bones. And from Wikipedia&#8217;s article on ossuaries: An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-ctd-2\/\"> 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-7254","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\/7254","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=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7255,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}