{"id":1398,"date":"2016-08-27T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2016-08-27T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:52:25","slug":"idol-idle-and-idyll-words-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idol-idle-and-idyll-words-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol, idle and idyll | Words confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These words often cause confusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idle<\/strong> means \u2018not active\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An idle mind is a devil\u2019s workshop.<\/li>\n<li>When the factory closed many employees were left idle.<\/li>\n<li>Just because you are old doesn\u2019t mean you have to be idle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Idol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An idol is an image of a God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hindus worship idols.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An idol can also be a person greatly admired.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pele is a soccer idol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An idyll is a literary work about the charming rustic life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennyson wrote many idylls.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy reading idylls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words often cause confusion. Idle means \u2018not active\u2019. An idle mind is a devil\u2019s workshop. When the factory closed many employees were left idle. Just because you are old doesn\u2019t mean you have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-idle-and-idol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}