{"id":9594,"date":"2017-05-25T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:07:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/25\/word-of-the-day-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Recondite<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1 : difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep a recondite subject<\/p>\n<p>2 : of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure<br \/>\nrecondite fact about the origin of the holiday \u2014 Floyd Dell<\/p>\n<p>3 : hidden from sight : concealed<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/recondite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431250-500-odds-on-10-science-breakthroughs-you-can-bet-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Brooks, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (13 May 2017, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22429991-600-how-to-think-about-alien-contact\/\">Alien contact<\/a> at least has a protocol: it must be confirmed by the US President or UK Prime Minister. Policing more recondite bets can be tough, though. \u201cSay we were to take a bet on there being more to evolution than genetics,\u201d says Sharpe. \u201cWho\u2019s going to chair that debate?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recondite: 1 : difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep a recondite subject 2 : of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure recondite fact about the origin of the holiday \u2014 Floyd Dell 3 : hidden from sight : \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/25\/word-of-the-day-155\/\"> 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-9594","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\/9594","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=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}