{"id":5322,"date":"2011-11-09T07:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2011-11-09T07:07:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:07:45","slug":"ready-for-gleaming-word-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/5322","title":{"rendered":"Ready for gleaming word olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo one review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/2982\">The Book of Awesome<\/a> and many gleaming words later, I stumbled upon a website that is also awesome, but with their vocabulary! The website called <a href=\"http:\/\/randomlyawesomewords.com\/\">randomlyawesomewords.com<\/a> is dedicated to\u00a0complex phrases you might hear during a game of Balderdash, and these stumpers are sure to have you scratching your head.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sentence:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Yenta and Kachina disliked the foehns because it inhibited their ceremonial dances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This translated, means,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A woman\u00a0who\u00a0is a\u00a0gossip\u00a0or busybody and a\u00a0deified\u00a0ancestral\u00a0spirit\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0mythology\u00a0of\u00a0Pueblo\u00a0Indians disliked a\u00a0hot\u00a0southerly wind on the\u00a0northern\u00a0slopes of the Alps because it inhibited their ceremonial dances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whewww. Talk about a doozy! If any of you have graduated from gleaming words, or would like to score a perfect on the identification portion of the SAT&#8217;s, then this site is for you.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one review of The Book of Awesome and many gleaming words later, I stumbled upon a website that is also awesome, but with their vocabulary! The website called randomlyawesomewords.com is dedicated to\u00a0complex phrases you might hear during a game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/5322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/5322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[370,877],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-the-book-of-awesome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","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=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}