{"id":23,"date":"2007-01-25T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:03:57","slug":"continual-v-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/continual-v-continuous\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Continual<\/em> vs. <em>Continuous<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continual<\/em> means repeated but with breaks in between; chronic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Example:<\/strong> The continual problem of our car&#8217;s not starting forced us to sell it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Continuous<\/em> means without interruption in an unbroken stream of time or space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Example: <\/strong>The continuous dripping of the faucet drove me crazy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continual means repeated but with breaks in between; chronic. Example: The continual problem of our car&#8217;s not starting forced us to sell it. Continuous means without interruption in an unbroken stream of time or space. Example: The continuous dripping of the faucet drove me crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}