{"id":1667,"date":"2016-11-23T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2016-11-23T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:35:45","slug":"hindrance-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hindrance-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindrance | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Hinder (verb)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To hinder is to delay, slow down, hamper or retard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy snow hindered the progress of vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>You must develop good eating habits if you do not want health problems to hinder your career growth.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of nutrition hinders the mental and physical development of millions of poor children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Hindrance (noun)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hindrance can mean stumbling block, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, limitation, restriction etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of education could be a hindrance to your career.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of funding was the main hindrance to the execution of the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hindrance has a plural form &#8211; hindrances<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poverty and illiteracy are the main hindrances to the development of a nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that after hindrance we use the preposition <strong>\u2018to\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinder (verb) To hinder is to delay, slow down, hamper or retard. Heavy snow hindered the progress of vehicles. You must develop good eating habits if you do not want health problems to hinder&#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":[64],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-hindrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","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=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}