{"id":1748,"date":"2010-02-01T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2010-02-01T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:34:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-hermeneutics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: hermeneutics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of this word until my son spent a year at the University of Amsterdam as part of his first degree over a decade ago. He did a course called &#8220;The Hermaneutics Of Gender&#8221;.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen the word rarely since &#8211; but I did come across it in an academic paper that a postgraduate friend of mine asked me to read recently. The context?: &#8220;The case of metaphor is only a particular case for a general theory of hermeneutics.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe word essentially means the study of a special set of texts, typically the Bible or some academic writings. More information  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/hermeneutics\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee if you can slip the word into your next conversation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of this word until my son spent a year at the University of Amsterdam as part of his first degree over a decade ago. He did a course called &#8220;The Hermaneutics Of Gender&#8221;. I&#8217;ve seen the word rarely since &#8211; but I did come across it in an academic paper 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-1748","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\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}