{"id":1402,"date":"2016-08-27T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-08-27T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:55:12","slug":"hurdle-and-hurtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hurdle-and-hurtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurdle and hurtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These words are often confused.<\/p>\n<p>A hurdle is an obstacle or barrier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The racer couldn\u2019t clear the last hurdle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hurdle can also be a verb. To hurdle is to jump over a hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The horse jumped over the hurdle.<\/li>\n<li>The horse hurdled the fence. (= The horse jumped over the fence.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hurtle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To hurtle is to go very fast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The truck hurtled down the road.<\/li>\n<li>The bus hurtled into the car.<\/li>\n<li>The bike hurtled along the road at 100 miles an hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words are often confused. A hurdle is an obstacle or barrier. The racer couldn\u2019t clear the last hurdle. Hurdle can also be a verb. To hurdle is to jump over a hurdle. Compare:&#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":[161],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-confusing-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}