{"id":9201,"date":"2017-04-27T07:48:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:48:55","slug":"word-of-the-day-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/27\/word-of-the-day-137\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>xylograph<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Kunyu wanguo quantu<\/i>, or <i>Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth<\/i>, is the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas. It is a xylograph (wood block print) on six scrolls of fine native paper, each scroll measuring approximately 1820 x 3650 mm (each panel is approximately 2 feet by 5.75 feet). The carving of the wood blocks was done by Zhang Wentao. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.umn.edu\/bell\/maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>University of Minnesota \/ James Ford Bell Library<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xylograph: Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth, is the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas. It is a xylograph (wood block print) on six scrolls of fine native paper, each scroll measuring approximately 1820 x 3650 mm (each panel is approximately \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/27\/word-of-the-day-137\/\"> 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-9201","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\/9201","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=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}