{"id":113,"date":"2014-04-01T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:41:00","slug":"the-difference-between-desert-and-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-desert-and-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between desert and dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>TLDR:<\/strong> Reserve <em>dessert<\/em> for that meal you have after dinner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how often these two get mixed up in written English when they mean two completely different things!<\/p>\n<p>desert (noun)\u2014a dry expanse of land typically covered with sand<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>It took days for the camels to cross the desert.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>desert (verb)\u2014to abandon something or someone<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Charlie deserted his mistress and returned to his wife and children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The soldier picked up his rifle and deserted his post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>When the curtain rose and the audience applauded, her courage deserted her.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>dessert (noun)\u2014a sweet food eaten after a meal<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018I had traffic light jelly for dessert last night!\u2019<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it doesn&#8217;t help that the verb <em>desert<\/em> is pronounced the same way as <em>dessert<\/em>, but that&#8217;s the English language for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know which one I&#8217;d prefer after dinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}