{"id":20895,"date":"2017-01-17T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20895"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:11:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-xenodochial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20895","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: xenodochial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody has just used this word in a communication to me. Apparently, xenodochial is an adjective describing something \u2013 such as a person, place or software application &#8212; that is friendly to strangers. \u201cXenos\u201d is a Greek word for \u201cstrangers&#8221; and, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, xenodochial means &#8220;hospitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All this makes me wonder whether the use of the word xenodochial is in itself, anti-xenodochial. Maybe Donald Trump will tweet about this one day. But, then again, maybe not. However, I would rather he tweeted about the English language than on the intelligence community or nuclear weapons or the Russians or immigration &#8211; or almost anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody has just used this word in a communication to me. Apparently, xenodochial is an adjective describing something \u2013 such as a person, place or software application &#8212; that is friendly to strangers. \u201cXenos\u201d is a Greek word for \u201cstrangers&#8221; and, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, xenodochial means &#8220;hospitable.&#8221; All this makes me wonder [&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-20895","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\/20895","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=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20896,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/20896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}