{"id":16941,"date":"2015-03-25T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16941"},"modified":"2015-03-25T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:08:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-hemoclysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16941","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: hemoclysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word means a violent and bloody conflict, a bloodbath; specifically (chiefly with capital initial), the period of the mid-twentieth century encompassing both world wars.<\/p>\n<p>It was coined in 1998 by Matthew White in his book <em>\u201830 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century\u2019<\/em> when he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;It&#8217;s very possible, therefore, that future historians will consider these events to be mere episodes of a single massive upheaval &#8211; the &#8220;Hemoclysm&#8221;, to give it a name (Greek for &#8220;blood flood&#8221;) &#8211; which took the lives of some 155 million people.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word means a violent and bloody conflict, a bloodbath; specifically (chiefly with capital initial), the period of the mid-twentieth century encompassing both world wars. It was coined in 1998 by Matthew White in his book \u201830 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century\u2019 when he wrote: &#8216;It&#8217;s very possible, therefore, that future historians will consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941","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=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16958,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}