{"id":83264,"date":"2026-06-03T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83264"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:11:31","slug":"do-you-know-what-goodbye-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/do-you-know-what-goodbye-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What &#8216;Goodbye&#8217; Means?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did you know<\/strong>\u00a0you\u2019re saying a little prayer every time you say \u201cgoodbye\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cGoodbye\u201d is a contraction of the late 16th-century English phrase \u201cGod be with ye\u201d (or \u201cGod be with you\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Over time it shortened to \u201cGod b\u2019w\u2019ye\u201d &#8211; \u201cGoodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So every time you say it, you\u2019re literally blessing the other person.<\/p>\n<p>+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know\u00a0you\u2019re saying a little prayer every time you say \u201cgoodbye\u201d? The word \u201cGoodbye\u201d is a contraction of the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}