{"id":22980,"date":"2017-08-23T03:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=22980"},"modified":"2017-08-23T03:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:58:22","slug":"english-vocabulary-what-does-parlous-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-what-does-parlous-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: vocabulary: what does <i>parlous<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, unfamiliar, two-syllable words are always great finds. The tutor shares <i>parlous<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<p>I thought <em>parlous<\/em> would be related to talking, but it&#8217;s not at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>parlous: dangerous; risky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She views cliff-jumping as a <em>parlous<\/em> activity.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster.  <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, unfamiliar, two-syllable words are always great finds. The tutor shares parlous. I thought parlous would be related to talking, but it&#8217;s not at all. parlous: dangerous; risky She views cliff-jumping as a parlous activity. Source: Merriam-Webster. The Merriam-Webster &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-what-does-parlous-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: vocabulary: what does <i>parlous<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1222,2458],"class_list":["post-22980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-vocabulary","tag-what-does-parlous-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22980"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22994,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980\/revisions\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}