{"id":55618,"date":"2015-04-15T00:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55618"},"modified":"2015-04-15T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:09:52","slug":"oology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55618","title":{"rendered":"Oology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tOoooh, here’s a word for April …<\/p>\n

oology<\/p>\n

Sounds more like “Oh!” … not “Ooooh.”<\/p>\n

[oh-ol-uh-jee]<\/p>\n

Why April?<\/p>\n

Because April is a month filled with …<\/p>\n

spring,<\/p>\n

new beginnings,<\/p>\n

and Easter eggs.<\/p>\n

Still stumped?<\/p>\n

Maybe the shape<\/em> of the word will give you a clue …<\/p>\n

ooooooooooooooooooo<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe a visual is better …<\/p>\n

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\nEggs. It’s all about eggs.<\/p>\n

Oology is\u00a0the branch of ornithology that studies birds’ eggs.<\/p>\n

Here’s one for the record book: A giant “elephant bird” intact fossilized egg was sold at auction in 2013 for $101,813! Elephant birds were a kind of predecessor to the ostrich, living in Madagascar between the 13th and 17th centuries. The elephant bird egg was 120 times bigger than an average chicken egg … breakfast for a crowd.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ooooh, here’s a word for April … oology Sounds more like “Oh!” … not “Ooooh.” [oh-ol-uh-jee] Why April? Because April is a month filled with … spring, new beginnings, and Easter eggs. Still stumped? Maybe the shape of the word … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}