{"id":5054,"date":"2011-02-28T22:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:59:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-concatenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5054","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: concatenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kid you not. I had a conversation today in which the word &#8216;concatenation&#8217; was used (thanks, Nick).<\/p>\n<p>I had to ask what it means. In this case, it was being used in the context of a computer language (Objective-C, if you must know) where apparently it means &#8216;to arrange strings of characters into a chained list&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, concatenation means &#8216;to connect or link in a series or chain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You might be able to slip it into your next conversation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kid you not. I had a conversation today in which the word &#8216;concatenation&#8217; was used (thanks, Nick). I had to ask what it means. In this case, it was being used in the context of a computer language (Objective-C, if you must know) where apparently it means &#8216;to arrange strings of characters into a [&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-5054","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\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}