{"id":15846,"date":"2012-06-02T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=15846"},"modified":"2012-06-02T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:05:30","slug":"pack-your-portmanteau-were-glamping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/15846","title":{"rendered":"Pack your portmanteau … we’re glamping!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWhy resort to a knapsack, rucksack, or packsack, when a portmanteau<\/em> is waiting for your flip flops, aviators, high-wasted jeans, and let’s-hit-the-road grin?<\/p>\n

Are you\u00a0ready? It’s National Glamping Weekend<\/a>!! We’ve packed our bags and we’re heading out for a fun-filled weekend sitting by the campfire making s’mores, fishing in the nearby stream, board games, jigsaw puzzles, and fun in the sun.<\/p>\n

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Say it with me: portmanteau<\/a>\u2014a large traveling case made of stiff leather, especially one hinged at the back so as to open out into two compartments or,<\/p>\n

portmanteau\u00a0is also\u00a0used to describe a linguistic blend, namely a word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their meanings\u00a0…\u00a0such as Spanish and English into Spanglish<\/a>, or smoke and fog into smog, or,<\/p>\n

in Lewis Carroll’s book, Through the Looking-Glass<\/em>, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky, where “slithy” means “lithe and slimy” and “mimsy” is “flimsy and miserable,”\u00a0OR<\/p>\n

glamour and camping into glamping!!!!!!!!!!!!!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why resort to a knapsack, rucksack, or packsack, when a portmanteau is waiting for your flip flops, aviators, high-wasted jeans, and let’s-hit-the-road grin? Are you\u00a0ready? It’s National Glamping Weekend!! We’ve packed our bags and we’re heading out for a fun-filled … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[370,625,715],"class_list":["post-15846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-national-glamping-weekend","tag-portmanteau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}