﻿{"id":5272,"date":"2011-04-04T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:29:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-sesquicenntial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: sesquicentennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word refers to a period of 150 years or the 150th anniversary of an event. We are about to commemorate in a week&#8217;s time the 150th anniversary of a major historic event, so you will see the word used and reports on the anniversary &#8211; remember where you saw it first.<\/p>\n<p>The event I am thinking of occurred on 12 April 1861. It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter\">Battle of Fort Sumter<\/a> which started the bloody, four-year <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\">American Civil War<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word refers to a period of 150 years or the 150th anniversary of an event. We are about to commemorate in a week&#8217;s time the 150th anniversary of a major historic event, so you will see the word used and reports on the anniversary &#8211; remember where you saw it first. The event I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","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=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}