{"id":35687,"date":"2018-09-14T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35687"},"modified":"2018-09-14T21:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:37:23","slug":"english-what-does-spurious-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-spurious-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does spurious mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word <em>spurious<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;margin-bottom:16px;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">spurious (adj)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>not as represented or suggested; false.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word spurious. spurious (adj) not as represented or suggested; false. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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-35687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35687","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=35687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35689,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35687\/revisions\/35689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}