{"id":12,"date":"2015-07-21T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2015-07-21T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:11:30","slug":"vocabulary-lesson-petrichor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary lesson: petrichor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never knew there was a word for the smell of the earth after the first rain on dry ground. But this morning I learned that yes, in fact there is: <b>petrichor,<\/b> derived from the Greek <i>petra<\/i> (stone) + <i>ichor,<\/i> the &#8220;blood&#8221; of the Greek gods. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrichor\">Wikipedia<\/a> has more to say on its origins (which are fascinating).<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a fitting word to learn today of all days, following the first little bit of rain we&#8217;ve had after weeks of heat and dryness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never knew there was a word for the smell of the earth after the first rain on dry ground. But this morning I learned that yes, in fact there is: petrichor, derived from the Greek petra (stone) + ichor, the &#8220;blood&#8221; of the Greek gods. Wikipedia has more to say on its origins (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}