{"id":16917,"date":"2022-10-04T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16917"},"modified":"2022-10-04T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:14:06","slug":"words-seldom-seen-piqued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16917","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Piqued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pique<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verb: Stimulate or arouse interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “The reflecting pool piqued his interest.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Piqued is the past tense of pique but is the more common usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another example: “The glass balls are in the pool to pique your interest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo (if you got it) is from the Missouri Botanical Garden<\/a>. If you don’t get the photo with the subscriber email click on the title block to see it. I’m working to solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pique Verb: Stimulate or arouse interest. Example: “The reflecting pool piqued his interest.” Piqued is the past tense of pique but is the more common usage. Another example: “The glass balls are in the pool to pique your interest.” The photo (if you got it) is from the Missouri Botanical Garden. If you don’t get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[408],"tags":[1160,409],"class_list":["post-16917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-pique","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/A29C6461-A3AE-452F-AD13-55A9B92D5F91_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4oR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}