{"id":25759,"date":"2020-04-22T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25759"},"modified":"2020-04-22T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:17:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25759","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The current coronaviris crisis is highlighting certain words. My last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25732\">word of the day <\/a>was &#8216;furlough&#8217;. Today I want to look at the word &#8216;quarantine&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word comes from the Italian word for 40: <em>quaranta<\/em>. Originally, when a ship was suspected of being infected with some contagious disorder, it was obliged to lie off port for a period of 40 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the term is applied to any period of segregation to prevent infection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current coronaviris crisis is highlighting certain words. My last word of the day was &#8216;furlough&#8217;. Today I want to look at the word &#8216;quarantine&#8221;. The word comes from the Italian word for 40: quaranta. Originally, when a ship was suspected of being infected with some contagious disorder, it was obliged to lie off port [&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-25759","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\/25759","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=25759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25761,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759\/revisions\/25761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}