{"id":3070,"date":"2015-01-13T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2015-01-13T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:48:19","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-hope-for-the-best-but-prepare-for-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-hope-for-the-best-but-prepare-for-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Benjamin_Disraeli_by_Cornelius_Jabez_Hughes_1878.jpg\" width=\"554\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bad things might happen, so be prepared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This phrase was first used in the 1833 book\u00a0<i>The Wondrous Tale of Alroy <\/i>by British novelist, essayist, and twice Prime Minister of the UK,\u00a0Benjamin\u00a0Disraeli. In chapter 3 of his book, he writes <em>&#8220;I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.&#8221; What &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,35,34],"tags":[1237,1236,182,1233,191,1212,1234,544,841,1235],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-benjamin-disraeli","tag-best","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-hope","tag-interesting-expression","tag-january-2015","tag-prepare","tag-preperation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-worst","cat_731","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","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=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}