{"id":14079,"date":"2014-03-24T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14079"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:30:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-copolite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14079","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: coprolite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I come across a new word, I like to look it up and try to remember it . I am currently reading the J K Rowling novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Casual-Vacancy-J-K-Rowling\/dp\/0751552860\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1395615280&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Casual+vacancy\">&#8220;The Casual Vacancy&#8221;<\/a> and she uses a word with which I was unfamiliar.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8216;coprolite&#8217; which I have learned means fossilised animal dung. Apparently this is important for paleontologists\u00a0but Rowling uses the world in a metaphorical sense.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coprolite\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I come across a new word, I like to look it up and try to remember it . I am currently reading the J K Rowling novel &#8220;The Casual Vacancy&#8221; and she uses a word with which I was unfamiliar. It is &#8216;coprolite&#8217; which I have learned means fossilised animal dung. Apparently this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14079","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\/14079","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=14079"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}