{"id":1706,"date":"2010-01-04T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:13:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-promogeniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: promogeniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This word refers to the state of being the first born or eldest child of the same parents. In a legal context, it establishes the right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit estate or rank from one or both parents.<br \/>\nAs someone who believes in equality and meritocracy, I oppose the principle of promogeniture and doubly oppose its usual application to the male heir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This word refers to the state of being the first born or eldest child of the same parents. In a legal context, it establishes the right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit estate or rank from one or both parents. As someone who believes in equality and meritocracy, I oppose the [&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-1706","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\/1706","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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}