{"id":72336,"date":"2019-09-20T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72336"},"modified":"2019-09-20T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:05:33","slug":"feel-vs-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/feel-vs-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel vs. Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">In British English,<b> ill<\/b> means unwell. <b>Ill<\/b> is most common in predicative position.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She couldn\u2019t come because she <b>was ill. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before a noun, many British people prefer to use <b>sick.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She spent years looking after her <b>sick husband.<\/b> (NOT &#8230; looking after her ill husband.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Be sick <\/b>can mean <i>vomit<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I feel <b>sick.<\/b> Where is the bathroom?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In British English, ill means unwell. Ill is most common in predicative position. She couldn\u2019t come because she was ill. Before a noun, many British people prefer to use sick. She spent years looking&#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":[251],"tags":[1553,1552,1554],"class_list":["post-72336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-ill","tag-ill-vs-sick","tag-sick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336","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=72336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72337,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336\/revisions\/72337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}