{"id":17991,"date":"2015-08-17T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17991"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T08:17:01","slug":"word-of-the-day-littoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17991","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: littoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Littoral can be a noun or an adjective and refers to the shore of a lake, sea or ocean.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new word for me and I came across it in a chapter title of the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0053UTIOG?keywords=%26%2334%3BThe%20Storm%20Of%20War%26%2334%3B&amp;qid=1439560769&amp;ref_=sr_1_8&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-8\">&#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221;<\/a>, an account of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts. The relevant chapter is about the efforts by the British, Italians and Germans in 1939-1942 to occupy the North African coastline in Libya and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Littoral can be a noun or an adjective and refers to the shore of a lake, sea or ocean. It&#8217;s a new word for me and I came across it in a chapter title of the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment: &#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221;, an account of the Second World War by Andrew [&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-17991","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\/17991","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=17991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17993,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions\/17993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}