{"id":44684,"date":"2023-01-03T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44684"},"modified":"2023-01-03T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:43:04","slug":"english-where-does-the-apple-of-your-eye-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-where-does-the-apple-of-your-eye-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"English: where does &#8220;the apple of your eye&#8221; come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about expressions: the tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhen I was a kid, I came to understand that &#8220;the apple of your eye&#8221; means someone you are fond of &#8211; perhaps most fond of. Yet, where does that saying come from?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s found in the Bible, Pslam 17:8. David asks God to &#8220;Keep me as the apple of Your eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2017&#038;version=NKJV\">biblegateway.com<\/a><\/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 expressions: the tutor mentions one. When I was a kid, I came to understand that &#8220;the apple of your eye&#8221; means someone you are fond of &#8211; perhaps most fond of. Yet, where does that saying come from? &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-where-does-the-apple-of-your-eye-come-from\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: where does &#8220;the apple of your eye&#8221; come from?<\/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-44684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684","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=44684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44690,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684\/revisions\/44690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}