{"id":1705,"date":"2016-12-14T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2016-12-14T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:54:08","slug":"dilemma-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/dilemma-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilemma | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dilemma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dilemma<\/strong> comes from the Greek phrase di (two) + lemma (a premise \/ proposition)<\/p>\n<p>Dilemma means difficult choice, problem, predicament, quandary etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The doctor\u2019s dilemma was whether he should tell the patient the truth.<\/li>\n<li>Her dilemma was whether she should marry her boss or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You are in a dilemma when you have to make a difficult choice between alternatives that are equally undesirable.<\/p>\n<p>To be caught on the horns of a dilemma is to be forced to choose between two equally undesirable alternatives or propositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilemma Dilemma comes from the Greek phrase di (two) + lemma (a premise \/ proposition) Dilemma means difficult choice, problem, predicament, quandary etc. The doctor\u2019s dilemma was whether he should tell the patient the&#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":[365],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-dilemma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}