{"id":10547,"date":"2013-09-05T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:21:06","slug":"loosely-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/loosely-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosely, A Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word of the day is “asterism.” Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary<\/a> as:<\/p>\n

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  1. A group or cluster of stars; a constellation.<\/li>\n
  2. loosely, A star, or anything shaped like one.<\/li>\n
  3. A group of three asterisks placed thus (\u00e2\u0081\u201a) to direct attention to a particular passage. Rarely, a single asterisk (*) so used.<\/li>\n
  4. Min. (Also in modern Latin form asterismus.) An appearance of light in the shape of a six-rayed star seen in some crystals, as in star sapphire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From the Greek \u00e1\u00bc\u20ac\u00cf\u0192\u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00b5\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00b9\u00cf\u0192\u00ce\u00bc\u00cf\u0152\u00cf\u201a, which means “a marking with stars, a constellation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Word of the day is “asterism.” Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: A group or cluster of stars; a constellation. loosely, A star, or anything shaped like one. A group of three asterisks placed thus (\u00e2\u0081\u201a) to direct attention to a particular passage. Rarely, a single asterisk (*) so used. Min. (Also in modern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2562],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-wotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}