{"id":3265,"date":"2015-01-27T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T11:36:43","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Better late than never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cultureofunity.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/whiterabbit.png\" width=\"435\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Better late than never.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s best to do something on time. But if you can&#8217;t do it on time, do it late.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinjbrowne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Better-late-than-never.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This proverb is often expressed with a degree of sarcasm, apparently saying something positive but in fact merely remarking on someone&#8217;s lateness. A teacher might say it to a child arriving late for school, for example. Geoffery Chaucer appears to have been the first person to have put the proverb into print, in\u00a0<em>The Yeoman&#8217;s Prologue and Tale, Canterbury Tales<\/em>, circa 1386:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For bet than never is late. [<em>Better than never is late.<\/em>]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Better late than never.&#8221; What does it mean? It&#8217;s best &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[1325,182,191,1212,1326],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-better-late-than-never","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-expression","tag-january-2015","tag-punctuality","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}