{"id":38080,"date":"2019-09-08T23:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38080"},"modified":"2019-09-08T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:54:58","slug":"vocabulary-beeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-beeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: beeves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, surprises arise. The tutor mentions beeves.<\/h2>\n<p>\nBeeves is plural of beef. It can refer to presented beef dinners or standing animals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI first read &#8220;beeves&#8221; in Shelby Foote&#8217;s <em>The Civil War<\/em>. I believe he was referring to cattle captured during a raid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:\n<\/p><p>\nMish, Frederick C (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.\n<\/p><p>\nFoote, Shelby. <em>The Civil War: Red River to Appomattox<\/em>. New York: Random House, 1974.\n<\/p>Jack 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, surprises arise. The tutor mentions beeves. Beeves is plural of beef. It can refer to presented beef dinners or standing animals. I first read &#8220;beeves&#8221; in Shelby Foote&#8217;s The Civil War. I believe he was referring to cattle &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-beeves\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: beeves<\/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-38080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38080","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=38080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38082,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38080\/revisions\/38082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}