{"id":35389,"date":"2018-07-15T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35389"},"modified":"2018-07-15T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:47:58","slug":"what-is-a-tank-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-a-tank-town\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a tank town?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, discoveries are continuous. The tutor brings up the term <em>tank town<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"background-color:khaki;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap;padding:2em\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\">tank town (noun):<\/span><br \/>\na small town, not distinguished.\n<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the phrase comes from the steam locomotive era, when a train would stop at a town to refill its boiler.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/tank-town\">www.collinsdictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, discoveries are continuous. The tutor brings up the term tank town. tank town (noun): a small town, not distinguished. Apparently, the phrase comes from the steam locomotive era, when a train would stop at a town to refill &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-a-tank-town\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a tank town?<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-35389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35389","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=35389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35392,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35389\/revisions\/35392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}