{"id":257,"date":"2013-03-10T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T12:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2013-03-10T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T12:54:31","slug":"phrasal-verb-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: warm up"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>warm <\/strong><i>someone\/something<\/i> <strong>up<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Transitive, Separable<\/em><strong><br \/>\nMeaning:<\/strong> to increase the temperature<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong>You should <strong>warm up <\/strong>the soup in the microwave before you eat it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Did you know that the microwave was discovered by accident?\u00a0 Percy Spencer, an American engineer was working with magnetrons to create an efficient microwave radio signal when he noticed that the chocolate bar he was saving in his pocket had melted.\u00a0 He connected the melting of the bar to the machine, so he decided to test his theory by putting popcorn in front of the device.\u00a0 When he turned it on, the popcorn popped and he <strong>came up with<\/strong> (<i>to create<\/i>) the idea for a microwave.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Spencer, we can<strong> warm up <\/strong>our food quickly!<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 2. <\/b><strong>warm up<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Intransitive<br \/>\n<\/em><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><strong> Meaning: <\/strong>to prepare body for exercise<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><strong> Example:<\/strong> You should <strong>warm up<\/strong> for at least ten minutes before you play in the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9EIveHwQcgU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9EIveHwQcgU<br \/>\n<\/a>This Australian Olympian became famous for her interesting <strong>warm-up<\/strong> before a race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>warm someone\/something up Transitive, Separable Meaning: to increase the temperature Example: You should warm up the soup in the microwave before you eat it. Did you know that the microwave was discovered by accident?\u00a0 Percy Spencer, an American engineer was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=257\">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-257","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\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}