{"id":8706,"date":"2017-03-23T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:14:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/23\/word-of-the-day-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Petrichor<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>14.<\/strong> Cherrapunji also holds a long-standing record for highest rainfall in a 12-month period: 86 feet, 10 inches, set back in 1860-1861.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15.<\/strong> The folks in Cherrapunji might be tired of it, but many people enjoy petrichor, the scent that often follows rainfall. Two Australian researchers coined the term back in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.<\/strong>A U.S.-based team working at about the same time identified geosmin, a byproduct of soil bacteria, as the source of earthy notes in the distinctive smell.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2017\/april-2017\/20-things-you-didnt-know-about--rain\" target=\"_blank\"><em>20 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About &#8230; Rain<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Gemma Tarlach, <em><strong>Discover<\/strong><\/em> (April 2017, paywall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrichor: 14. Cherrapunji also holds a long-standing record for highest rainfall in a 12-month period: 86 feet, 10 inches, set back in 1860-1861. 15. The folks in Cherrapunji might be tired of it, but many people enjoy petrichor, the scent that often follows rainfall. Two Australian researchers coined the term \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/23\/word-of-the-day-115\/\"> 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-8706","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\/8706","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=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8707,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}