{"id":3641,"date":"2012-03-12T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2012-03-16T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:44:08","slug":"the-birth-of-a-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/03\/the-birth-of-a-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of a berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my daughter&#8217;s birthday this week, this seemed like an appropriate pair of similar but unrelated words.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">birth<\/span><\/strong> (noun): a new start, especially relating to a baby leaving its mother&#8217;s body<br \/>\n<em>My youngest child&#8217;s birth was quicker than my earlier experiences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">berth<\/span><\/strong> (noun): a space for a ship or large vehicle to be tied up or parked; a sleeping space in a boat; a job (usually on a ship); space in which to turn or manoeuvre a ship<br \/>\n<em>The Captain skilfully brought the ship into its berth.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to remember which birth is which. The first is to think of the s<strong>e<\/strong>a in relation to the ship&#8217;s b<strong>e<\/strong>rth. However, the more fun option is to think of the i in birth as a candle on the-all-important birthday cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my daughter&#8217;s birthday this week, this seemed like an appropriate pair of similar but unrelated words. birth (noun): a new start, especially relating to a baby leaving its mother&#8217;s body My youngest child&#8217;s birth was quicker than my earlier experiences. berth (noun): a space for a ship or large vehicle to be tied up [&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":[1165,1164,297],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-berth","tag-birth","tag-definition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}