{"id":35080,"date":"2018-06-13T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35080"},"modified":"2018-06-13T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:57:42","slug":"english-what-is-a-maven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-maven\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what is a maven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions maven, a word he&#8217;s long wondered about.<\/h1>\n<p>Here and there, I&#8217;ve seen the word <em>maven<\/em> over the years, but never knew what it meant. Finally I got the notion to look it up:<\/p>\n<p><strong>maven: one with expert knowledge on the subject in question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions maven, a word he&#8217;s long wondered about. Here and there, I&#8217;ve seen the word maven over the years, but never knew what it meant. Finally I got the notion to look it up: maven: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-maven\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what is a maven?<\/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":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080","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=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35090,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions\/35090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}