{"id":1402,"date":"2014-07-10T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2014-11-24T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:09:59","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-white-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-white-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions &#8211; White Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Elephant &#8211; a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money, a\u00a0valuable but burdensome possession.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Origin:<\/strong> from the story that in Siam (Thailand) the king would give a white elephant as a present to someone that he didn&#8217;t like. The person would have to spend all their money on looking after the rare animal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1403\" alt=\"Lord_White_Elephant\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant.jpg 976w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant-190x121.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant-280x178.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant-445x283.jpg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lord_White_Elephant-600x382.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Elephant &#8211; a thing that is useless and no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[343,191,342],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-idioms","tag-interesting-expression","tag-white-elephant","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}