{"id":63237,"date":"2016-12-27T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=63237"},"modified":"2016-12-27T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T08:09:00","slug":"merry-merrythought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/63237","title":{"rendered":"Merry, Merrythought!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIf I had said to you at Christmas dinner, “I just had a merry thought … why don’t we have a go at the merrythought,” you’d probably think I was losing my grip.<\/p>\n

But actually, my grip would have been gearing up to grasp at something …<\/p>\n

on the holiday turkey.<\/p>\n

And challenging you to a little contest with a lucky outcome …<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

merrythought<\/strong>
\n<\/span>[mer<\/span>-ee-thawt]<\/span><\/p>\n

noun<\/span><\/span>, Chiefly<\/span> British.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span> <\/span>the<\/span> wishbone<\/span> or<\/span> furcula<\/span> of<\/span> a<\/span> fowl.<\/span><\/div>\n
1600-10;<\/span> <\/span>so<\/span> called<\/span> from<\/span> the<\/span> custom<\/span> of<\/span> pulling<\/span> the<\/span> bone<\/span> apart<\/span> until<\/span> it<\/span> breaks,<\/span> the<\/span> person<\/span> holding<\/span> the<\/span> longer<\/span> piece<\/span> supposedly<\/span> being<\/span> granted<\/span> a<\/span> wish<\/span> … or marrying<\/span> first!<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Or would that be marrythought?<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

 \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I had said to you at Christmas dinner, “I just had a merry thought … why don’t we have a go at the merrythought,” you’d probably think I was losing my grip. But actually, my grip would have been … 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":[],"class_list":["post-63237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63237","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=63237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}