{"id":8635,"date":"2017-03-21T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:14:03","slug":"word-of-the-day-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/21\/word-of-the-day-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chalazae<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever noticed those little springy white cords attached to egg yolks? Have a look next time you crack an egg. They\u2019re the chalazae and they hold the yolk suspended mid-egg, so that it floats in an incubation bath with a constant temperature. They also ensure the developing chick is not damaged when its mother turns the egg. Egg-turning only evolved in modern birds. Opposite birds buried their eggs, so it is possible their eggs didn\u2019t have those stringy bits. [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23331150-700-who-were-the-opposite-birds-and-why-did-they-disappear\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Flipping the birds<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; sidebar, Jeff Hecht, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (4 March 2017, paywall)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalazae: Ever noticed those little springy white cords attached to egg yolks? Have a look next time you crack an egg. They\u2019re the chalazae and they hold the yolk suspended mid-egg, so that it floats in an incubation bath with a constant temperature. They also ensure the developing chick is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/21\/word-of-the-day-113\/\"> 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-8635","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\/8635","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=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}