{"id":15459,"date":"2023-03-04T01:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2023-03-04T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:09:24","slug":"x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/15459","title":{"rendered":"X"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet. It is borrowed, as to its form, from the Greek <em>X<\/em>. At the end of words, it has the sound of <em>ks<\/em>, as in <em>wax<\/em>, <em>lax<\/em>; in the middle, the sound of <em>ks<\/em>, or sometimes of <em>gz<\/em>, as in <em>axis<\/em>, <em>example<\/em>, <em>exhaust<\/em>. At the beginning of a word, it has the sound of <em>z<\/em>. \u2014 Webster, 1882<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; color: #6384bd; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: PT Sans, sanserif, Georgia;\">Click on the image below to learn more.<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" style=\"border-width:0; border-color:white; border-style:none;\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8571\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/8567\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8571\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/button_xantho_w-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"xanthophyll\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/button_xantho_w-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/button_xantho_w.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">xanthophyll<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\"\/>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; color: #6384bd; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: PT Sans, sanserif, Georgia;\">That&#8217;s it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_book.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xanthophyll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[623],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15460,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions\/15460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}