{"id":38851,"date":"2020-02-13T22:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2020-02-13T22:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:58:42","slug":"english-what-is-a-missive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-missive\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what is a &#8220;missive?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions &#8220;missive&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nA <em>missive<\/em> is a written message: a letter. It may be more formal than casual, perhaps urgent rather than entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et at. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.\n<\/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 &#8220;missive&#8221;. A missive is a written message: a letter. It may be more formal than casual, perhaps urgent rather than entertaining. Source: Barber, Katherine et at. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-missive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what is a &#8220;missive?&#8221;<\/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-38851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851","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=38851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38853,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions\/38853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}