{"id":7815,"date":"2004-08-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/18\/idioms\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T06:23:23","slug":"idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/18\/idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"Many things that people say do sound nice but noone seems to have an idea (or even think about) where from they are coming from. Some of these nice things people say are called idioms. There is a nice IdiomSite<\/a> that tries to explain many words and phrases in the English language that can be heard daily.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Many things that people say do sound nice but noone seems to have an idea (or even think about) where from they are coming from. Some of these nice things people say are called idioms. There is a nice IdiomSite that tries to explain many words and phrases in the English language that can be … Continue reading Idioms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27394,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/06\/language-detection-library-for-php\/","url_meta":{"origin":7815,"position":0},"title":"Language Detection Library for PHP","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"patrickschur\/language-detection - is a language detection library for PHP, which detects the language from a given text string. \u00a0Now, a bit more detailed: This library can detect the language of a given text string. 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