{"id":1226,"date":"2008-11-30T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2012-11-13T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:49:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: refulgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recorded in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/11\/mozart_bruckner_and_linz.html\">my previous posting<\/a>, I attended a classical concert this weekend. Now the programme notes for Bruckner&#8217;s Symphony No 4 concluded with a sentence containing a word with which I was unfamiliar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The final coda is one of the most awesome of all symphonic perorations, crowned by the same majestic horn call that first opened the work, exultantly crying out over the orchestra&#8217;s surgingly refulgent textures.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word that was new to me was &#8216;refulgent&#8217;. According to the web site<a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/refulgent\"> Answers.com<\/a>,  it means &#8216;shining radiantly; resplendent&#8217;. So now we know. See if you can work the word into your conversation this week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recorded in my previous posting, I attended a classical concert this weekend. Now the programme notes for Bruckner&#8217;s Symphony No 4 concluded with a sentence containing a word with which I was unfamiliar: &#8220;The final coda is one of the most awesome of all symphonic perorations, crowned by the same majestic horn call that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}