{"id":23156,"date":"2018-06-19T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23156"},"modified":"2018-06-19T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:48:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-mastaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23156","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: mastaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastaba is the Arabic word for bench. It is\u00a0a trapezoid shape which originated in Mesopotamia 6,000 to 7,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mastaba is also the title of\u00a0a new 600-tonne, 20-metre high floating sculpture made from more than 7,000 colourful oil barrels which has just been unveiled on London\u2019s Serpentine. It is the work of Bulgarian artist Christo and I&#8217;m looking forward to visiting it.<\/p>\n<p>You can see some picture of the structure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/jun\/18\/alien-mother-ship-christo-sculpture-floats-on-londons-serpentine\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastaba is the Arabic word for bench. It is\u00a0a trapezoid shape which originated in Mesopotamia 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Mastaba is also the title of\u00a0a new 600-tonne, 20-metre high floating sculpture made from more than 7,000 colourful oil barrels which has just been unveiled on London\u2019s Serpentine. It is the work of Bulgarian artist [&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-23156","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\/23156","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=23156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23159,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156\/revisions\/23159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}