{"id":500,"date":"2013-07-16T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:43:58","slug":"idiom-to-be-swamped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Idiom: to be &#8220;swamped&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>swamp<\/strong> is an area of land where water collects. \u00a0It is usually spongy and wet and contains a specific type of vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>The idiom &#8220;<strong>to be swamped<\/strong>&#8221; means to be very busy and overwhelmed with a large amount of work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/idiom-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-501\" alt=\"idiom (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/idiom-2-300x137.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/idiom-2-300x137.gif 300w, http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/idiom-2-500x228.gif 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swamp is an area of land where water collects. \u00a0It is usually spongy and wet and contains a specific type of vegetation. The idiom &#8220;to be swamped&#8221; means to be very busy and overwhelmed with a large amount of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=500\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}