{"id":3566,"date":"2015-03-09T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:11:49","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-a-watched-pot-never-boils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-a-watched-pot-never-boils\/","title":{"rendered":"\u10e1\u10d0\u10d8\u10dc\u10e2\u10d4\u10e0\u10d4\u10e1\u10dd \u10e1\u10d8\u10e2\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10d2\u10d0\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0\u10d7\u10e5\u10d5\u10d0\u10db\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u2013 A watched pot never boils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;A watched pot never boils.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something takes time to finish, don&#8217;t watch it too closely because it will seem like it&#8217;s taking forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/kristaopettaa.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/garfield-toaster.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A watched pot never boils&#8217;<\/em> is one of the homely and improving proverbs that is ascribed to Poor Richard, which was the pseudonym that Benjamin Franklin used when publishing his widely popular annual almanac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A watched pot never boils.&#8221; What does it mean? If &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1510,1511,234,199,1467,191,1460,1512],"class_list":["post-3566","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-a-watched-pot-never-boils","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-forever","tag-interesting-expression","tag-march-2015","tag-poor-richard","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","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=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}