{"id":1072,"date":"2010-07-12T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2010-06-09T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:07:37","slug":"pride-or-pried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/07\/pride-or-pried\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride or pried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a\u00a0pair of words that sound identical and have the same letters but have very different meanings and are very different in other tenses.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>pride: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">feelings of self-respect, value, and worth, especially after an achievement or about a particular aspect of self\/life<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><em>Mary takes pride in her work and her customer&#8217;s feedback.<\/em><br \/>\nHe has pride; she is proud<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>pried:<\/strong><\/span> to have peered or looked into something beyond a casual glance; to have levered things apart<br \/>\n<em>Tom pried the board off the fence so he could see inside.<br \/>\n<\/em>She pried into his papers; a spy will pry into many things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a\u00a0pair of words that sound identical and have the same letters but have very different meanings and are very different in other tenses. pride: feelings of self-respect, value, and worth, especially after an achievement or about a particular aspect of self\/life Mary takes pride in her work and her customer&#8217;s feedback. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[511,1069,1070],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-pride","tag-pried","tag-tense"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}