{"id":56882,"date":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96e67428-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"96e67439-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96e67439-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Education\n\nHave you ever wondered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Shakespeare\u2019s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That\u2019s where the phrase, \u201cgoodnight, sleep tight\u201d came from.<\/p>\n<p>It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago, that for a month after the wedding, the bride\u2019s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the \u201choney month\u201d or what we know today as the \u201choneymoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It\u2019s where we get the phrase \u201cmind your P\u2019s and Q\u2019s\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Shakespeare\u2019s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That\u2019s where the phrase, \u201cgoodnight, sleep tight\u201d came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}