{"id":11033,"date":"2015-03-24T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11033"},"modified":"2015-03-24T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:10:31","slug":"sun-dribbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11033","title":{"rendered":"Sun dribbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/ripples.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Sand ripples \/ Sun dribbles\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While walking along by estuary of the River Dwyryd at Portmeirion yesterday, the Czech friend I was with asked me the name of the patterns in the sand and mud made by water. I wasn&#8217;t sure and suggested ripples or sand ripples. She misheard the latter and thought I said sun dribbles, which I really like the sound of. <\/p>\n<p>I checked today and discovered that the marks in sand and mud left by flowing water are known, rather boringly, as ripple marks, or wave-formed ripples, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ripple_marks\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do they have more poetic names in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking along by estuary of the River Dwyryd at Portmeirion yesterday, the Czech friend I was with asked me the name of the patterns in the sand and mud made by water. I wasn&#8217;t sure and suggested ripples or sand ripples. She misheard the latter and thought I said sun dribbles, which I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}