{"id":3642,"date":"2015-03-24T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T11:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:11:29","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-birds-of-a-feather-flock-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-birds-of-a-feather-flock-together\/","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 Birds of a feather flock together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lorrainedauphinee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/imagesCAGL60VG.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBirds of a feather flock together.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People like to spend time with others who are similar to them.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lowres.cartoonstock.com\/animals-bird-pigeon-saying-phrase-expression-ggm090821_low.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This proverb has been in use since at least the mid 16th century. In 1545, William Turner used a version of it in his papist satire\u00a0<em>The Rescuing of Romish Fox<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBirds of a feather flock together.&#8221; What does it mean? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1555,182,234,199,191,307,1460,682,1276,1556],"class_list":["post-3642","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-birds-of-a-feather-flock-together","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-interesting-expression","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-march-2015","tag-proverb","tag-similar","tag-william-turner","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","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=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}