{"id":72275,"date":"2019-09-18T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72275"},"modified":"2019-09-18T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:58:48","slug":"ex-vs-former","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ex-vs-former\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex vs. Former"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">There is a difference between <b>ex-girlfriend<\/b> and <b>former girlfriend<\/b>. Unfortunately, nowadays few people maintain the distinction between these two expressions.<\/p>\n<p>If you change girlfriends every two months, you will have several <b>former girlfriends<\/b>, but only one <b>ex-girlfriend<\/b>. The word <b>ex<\/b> should be used with the immediate past incumbent. In the other words, your <b>ex-girlfriend<\/b> is the one with whom you just broke up. All other girls you dated in the past are your <b>former girlfriends<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He still maintains good relations with his <b>former girlfriends<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I ran into my <b>ex-boyfriend<\/b> yesterday and it was not a pleasant experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between ex-girlfriend and former girlfriend. Unfortunately, nowadays few people maintain the distinction between these two expressions. If you change girlfriends every two months, you will have several former girlfriends, but&#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":[1473,1472],"class_list":["post-72275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-ex-or-former","tag-ex-vs-former"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72275","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=72275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72276,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72275\/revisions\/72276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}