{"id":3458,"date":"2022-10-24T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2022-10-24T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:36:27","slug":"word-up-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/word-up-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Word up &#8211; Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luca-laurence-vhQ4BTH6mj4-unsplash-16x12.png 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A thing as a noun is an unspecified object e.g. &#8222;I need to get a few things from my room.&#8221;<br>The general situation you are in e.g. <br>&#8222;How are things? &#8211; things are good, thanks.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>We have a thing going on<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; a casual relationship like in the song:<br>&#8222;Me and mrs Jones &#8211; we got a thing going on&#8221;<\/li><li><strong><em>To do your thing<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; to live and act as you normally, routinely do e.g.<br>&#8222;I\u2019m going home after work to do my thing&#8221;<\/li><li><strong><em>To have &#8222;that thing&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; a certain quality that is desired e.g.<br>&#8222;I can\u2019t say exactly what it is but She just has that thing&#8221; &#8211; <br>in this case a quality that makes her attractive and interesting.<\/li><li><strong><em>Thingy<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; a word used to describe a person or object you forget the name of: e.g. &#8222;Where is thingy, you know, what\u2019s he called, John?&#8221; Or &#8222;I\u2019m looking for that thingy, I left it on my desk somewhere.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thing as a noun is an unspecified object e.g. &#8222;I need to get a few things from my room.&#8221;The general situation you are in e.g. &#8222;How are things? &#8211; &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-word-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensenglish.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}