{"id":66,"date":"2009-07-15T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T01:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-08-24T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:35:50","slug":"gifts-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/gifts-of-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Our podcast &#8220;American Thanksgiving&#8221; included the following sentence:\u00a0 &#8220;People will express gratitude for the gifts of plenty that they are privileged to have<span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: x-small;\">.&#8221;. <\/span>One reader asked this question:<span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/h4>\n<p>please what is the meaning of &#8220;gifts of plenty&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso<\/p>\n<p><strong>We answered him this way:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f5f5dc;\">\n<p>Hello.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gifts of plenty&#8221; is an expression that implies an abundance of things that we need in order to live as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>It is related to the expression, the &#8220;horn of plenty&#8221;, whose definition on Wikipedia is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; * Cornucopia, a symbolic, hollow horn filled with the inexhaustible gifts of celebratory fruits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you do a search on &#8220;Google&#8221; for &#8220;cornucopia&#8221;, you will see the photo of a cornucopia, the horn of plenty, which you will surely recognize.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8220;gifts of plenty&#8221; is a reference to this.<\/p>\n<p>The gifts of plenty are technically a reference to food, but in a greater sense can include anything that we have been blessed with: a home, a roof over our heads, clothing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>The ESL Help! Desk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are happy to answer your questions about any English expressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our podcast &#8220;American Thanksgiving&#8221; included the following sentence:\u00a0 &#8220;People will express gratitude for the gifts of plenty that they are privileged to have.&#8221;. One reader asked this question: please what is the meaning of &#8220;gifts of plenty&#8221;? Alfonso We answered him this way: Hello. Thank you for your inquiry. &#8220;Gifts of plenty&#8221; is an expression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}