{"id":67370,"date":"2024-03-30T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=67370"},"modified":"2024-04-04T19:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:20:27","slug":"scarpered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/67370","title":{"rendered":"Scarpered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From one of my favorite books, <em><strong>West with the Night<\/strong><\/em> by Beryl Markham, page xii (Introduction by Sara Wheeler), I learned a new word that I&#8217;ve since found many opportunities to use. &#8220;She was born in Central England in 1902 and moved as a toddler to British East Africa, now Kenya, with her father, Charles Clutterbuck, a failed army officer and racehorse trainer. (Beryl&#8217;s mother had <strong>scarpered<\/strong> with a colonel, taking Beryl&#8217;s brother with her.) Clutt, as her father was known, bought 1,500 acres at Njoro, between the Mau Forest and the Rongai valley, and there he milled flour and timber: by 1907 he had more than a thousand Kavirondo and Kikuyu on payroll. The girl Beryl was left to run wild with Kipsigi boys, wearing a cowrie shell on a leather thong around her wrist to ward off evil sprits. She ate with her hands, her first language was Swahili, and she could hurl a spear as well as her playmates.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scarper, skahr-per<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>verb (used without object), British<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one&#8217;s bills.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"1\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From one of my favorite books, West with the Night by Beryl Markham, page xii (Introduction by Sara Wheeler), I learned a new word that I&#8217;ve since found many opportunities to use. &#8220;She was born in Central England in 1902 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/67370\">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":[],"class_list":["post-67370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67370","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=67370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67403,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67370\/revisions\/67403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}