{"id":88,"date":"2016-04-22T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-08-21T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:32:36","slug":"proverbs-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/proverbs-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funnily enough, the Spanish equivalent of this saying is \u00abM\u00e1s vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer\u00bb and it is widely used in Spain, hence, the lack of progress in many aspects of life. Language shapes the way we think and behave, so whenever a Spanish person faces a difficult choice, they tend to say to themselves, or others, \u00abBetter the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t\u00bb and end up choosing the safer option, even if it isn’t the best choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funnily enough, the Spanish equivalent of this saying is \u00abM\u00e1s vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer\u00bb and it is widely used in Spain, hence, the lack of progress in many aspects of life. Language shapes the way we think and behave, so whenever a Spanish person faces a difficult choice, they tend to say to themselves, or others, \u00abBetter the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t\u00bb and end up choosing the safer option, even if it isn’t…<\/p>\n

Leer m\u00e1s Leer m\u00e1s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,34,38,37,39],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-english","tag-english","tag-esl","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-proverbs-and-idioms","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}