{"id":470,"date":"2008-11-10T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T07:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2008-11-12T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T07:51:17","slug":"dont-get-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/11\/dont-get-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get court&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Police have a sign that is used by some shops that amuses me. It aims to reduce shoplifting and finishes &#8220;why risk getting court?&#8221; Obviously, it is a play on words and catches attention, which is what I like about it.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are struggling with why this amuses me, here are the definitions of the words court and caught.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">caught: <\/span>the past tense of to catch<br \/>\n<em>She caught the ball and won the game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">court:<\/span>an institution that applies law and justice for society; a defined area, usually with markings, for the playing of a specific game.<br \/>\n<em>Judges, lawyers and jurors come together in court.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>A tennis net is strung across the court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The legal system is there for us, as as games &#8211; you could say they are <strong>our<\/strong>s. So the word <strong>our<\/strong> is in our c<strong>our<\/strong>t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Police have a sign that is used by some shops that amuses me. It aims to reduce shoplifting and finishes &#8220;why risk getting court?&#8221; Obviously, it is a play on words and catches attention, which is what I like about it. In case you are struggling with why this amuses me, here are [&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":[840,838,839,278,338,841,201],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-catch","tag-caught","tag-court","tag-definitions","tag-game","tag-law","tag-words"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}