{"id":152,"date":"2013-02-03T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-02-03T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:37:09","slug":"phrasal-verb-get-rid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: get rid of"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><strong>get rid of<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Transitive, Inseparable<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> to eliminate<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong>Please <strong>get rid of <\/strong>anything you don\u2019t want.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\">Did you know that men get hiccups more often than women?\u00a0 How do you <strong>get rid of <\/strong>hiccups?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My dad had the hiccups once for ten days and could not <strong>get rid of <\/strong>them.\u00a0 The first day we thought it was funny, but after a few days he was miserable.\u00a0 He was unable to sleep or eat and had serious pains in his chest.\u00a0 He went to the doctor, and the doctor advised him to try a few different techniques, none of which actually worked.\u00a0 Eventually the hiccups went away on their own and my dad was overjoyed.\u00a0 To this day, I am nervous that when I get hiccups they might never go away!<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Some possible ways to get rid of hiccups:<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hold your breath for ten seconds while lying down<\/p>\n<p>Drink a large glass of cold water quickly<\/p>\n<p>Tell someone to scare you!<\/p>\n<p>Eat a spoonful of sugar<\/p>\n<p>Drink a glass of water with your head turned upside down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any other solutions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>get rid of Transitive, Inseparable Meaning: to eliminate Example: Please get rid of anything you don\u2019t want. Did you know that men get hiccups more often than women?\u00a0 How do you get rid of hiccups? My dad had the hiccups &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}