{"id":21647,"date":"2017-07-12T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2017-07-12T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:46:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-aquila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21647","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: aquila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you will see from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">this essay<\/a> on my web site, I&#8217;m interested in people&#8217;s names and how they acquired them and what they mean.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently visiting my son and his family in Kenya and I have just spent a couple of days with my eldest granddaughter visiting a wonderful nature reserve called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanctuaryfarmkenya.com\">Sanctuary Farm<\/a>. At this location, I met a young woman who is called Quily and learned that her real name is Aquila.<\/p>\n<p>In Latin and the Romance languages, aquila means eagle. In the UK, it is the name of an educational children&#8217;s magazine. I have never come across it before as the name of a contemporary person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you will see from this essay on my web site, I&#8217;m interested in people&#8217;s names and how they acquired them and what they mean. I am currently visiting my son and his family in Kenya and I have just spent a couple of days with my eldest granddaughter visiting a wonderful nature reserve called [&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-21647","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\/21647","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=21647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21651,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions\/21651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}