{"id":608,"date":"2010-02-01T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:57:40","slug":"get-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/get-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the obsession with prepositions in our language?\u00a0 I remember, when I went to Italy for that year, being astounded that there was an entirely different verb for every <em>get<\/em>-plus-preposition we use in English.\u00a0 Think about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get in (a car)<\/li>\n<li>get in (a college)<\/li>\n<li>get out (of a car)<\/li>\n<li>get out (&#8220;Get OUT!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe it!&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get up (from bed)<\/li>\n<li>get up (&#8230;you know)<\/li>\n<li>get down (off a ladder)<\/li>\n<li>get down (boogie)<\/li>\n<li>get at (an internal organ during surgery)<\/li>\n<li>get at (&#8220;What are you getting at?&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get to (a destination)<\/li>\n<li>get to (&#8220;She really gets to me.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get on (a plane, a train)<\/li>\n<li>get on (one&#8217;s last nerve)<\/li>\n<li>get off (a train)<\/li>\n<li>get off (&#8230;what one might do after one gets up)<\/li>\n<li>get over (a wall)<\/li>\n<li>get over (&#8220;I&#8217;ll never get over him.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get across (a river)<\/li>\n<li>get across (your point)<\/li>\n<li>get behind (a blast shield)<\/li>\n<li>get behind (a cause)<\/li>\n<li>get between (two parked cars)<\/li>\n<li>get between (&#8220;I don&#8217;t want my hatred of your mother to get between us.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get by (a person in a grocery aisle)<\/li>\n<li>get by (survive on little money)<\/li>\n<li>get through (a tunnel)<\/li>\n<li>get through (a tough time)<\/li>\n<li>get around (&#8220;Here we get around by Vespa.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>get around (&#8220;That Amy&#8230;she gets around.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the obsession with prepositions in our language?\u00a0 I remember, when I went to Italy for that year, being astounded that there was an entirely different verb for every get-plus-preposition we use in English.\u00a0 Think about it: get in (a car) get in (a college) get out (of a car) get out (&#8220;Get OUT!\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/get-some\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get Some<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}