{"id":16485,"date":"2015-01-14T08:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16485"},"modified":"2015-01-14T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T08:21:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-stoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16485","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: stoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stoma in medical terms is an artificial opening between a hollow organ and the outside of the body constructed to permit the passage of body fluids or waste products.<\/p>\n<p>Two types of operation give rise to such a stoma: a clostomy which creates an opening for faeces or a\u00a0urostomy which creates an opening for urine.<\/p>\n<p>I had never come across the word stoma until I read a novel called &#8220;Unexpected Lessons In Love&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#ULIL\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stoma in medical terms is an artificial opening between a hollow organ and the outside of the body constructed to permit the passage of body fluids or waste products. Two types of operation give rise to such a stoma: a clostomy which creates an opening for faeces or a\u00a0urostomy which creates an opening for [&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-16485","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\/16485","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=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16547,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions\/16547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}