{"id":236,"date":"2013-03-01T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2013-03-01T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:15:35","slug":"phrasal-verb-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: break in"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><strong>break in <\/strong>(to something)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Intransitive<\/em><strong><br \/>\nMeaning:<\/strong> force entry to a building<br \/>\n<strong>Example<\/strong><b>: <\/b>Somebody <strong>broke in <\/strong>last night and stole our television.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When I was a child, someone <strong>broke into<\/strong> my parent\u2019s garage and stole the lawn mower!<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0<strong> break<\/strong> <i>something<\/i><strong> in<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Transitive \/ Separable<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><strong> Meaning: <\/strong>wear something a few times so that it doesn&#8217;t look\/feel new<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><strong>\u00a0 Example: <\/strong>I need to <b>break in<\/b> my new sneakers before I run the marathon!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that a good way to <strong>break in<\/strong> soccer cleats is to wear them in the shower?\u00a0 It seems strange, but it works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>break in (to something) Intransitive Meaning: force entry to a building Example: Somebody broke in last night and stole our television. When I was a child, someone broke into my parent\u2019s garage and stole the lawn mower! 2. \u00a0 break &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=236\">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-236","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\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}