{"id":21645,"date":"2017-07-10T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21645"},"modified":"2017-07-10T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:10:46","slug":"word-of-the-day-avocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21645","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: avocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading the novel \u00a0&#8220;Alone In Berlin&#8221; by Hans Fallada. This was written in German and first published in 1947, but I&#8217;m reading an English translation of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the word &#8216;avocation&#8217; is used which I had to look up. It means: something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, especiallly for pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading the novel \u00a0&#8220;Alone In Berlin&#8221; by Hans Fallada. This was written in German and first published in 1947, but I&#8217;m reading an English translation of 2009. At one point, the word &#8216;avocation&#8217; is used which I had to look up. It means: something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, [&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-21645","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\/21645","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=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21646,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}