{"id":9351,"date":"2017-05-06T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T02:03:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/06\/word-of-the-day-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Immotile<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>lacking motility<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"vi\">a free-form sculpture that manages to suggest movement while remaining an <em>immotile<\/em> object <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/immotile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[<em><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431223-100-marine-life-is-rubbish-at-least-in-these-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aperture<\/a><\/strong> column (22 April 2017):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The place is significant for Barker, for it was here, in 1816, that marine biologist John Vaughan Thompson was posted as a military surgeon. In Cobh harbour, he became the first person to observe the small, immotile organisms known as plankton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it should be noted that, in the context of the column, Barbie Doll legs are considered to be immotile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immotile: lacking motility a free-form sculpture that manages to suggest movement while remaining an immotile object [Merriam-Webster] Noted in the NewScientist Aperture column (22 April 2017): The place is significant for Barker, for it was here, in 1816, that marine biologist John Vaughan Thompson was posted as a military surgeon. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/06\/word-of-the-day-144\/\"> 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-9351","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\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}