{"id":83,"date":"2023-06-01T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:15:15","slug":"all-aboard-the-jaloopy-to-hoptanglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"All aboard the jaloopy to Hoptanglia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the way you might catch a glimpse of some of the native life forms, such as the polliwatt, an electric tadpole; the junglefuzz, a wild, woolly sheep tousled to distraction; or the bazoobabushka, an old lady with a rocket launcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you arrive you may be invited to partake in some of the solemn cultural traditions, such as skirplicado, the gentle art of creating ornamental shapes by folding speeding tickets; or landguessing, the pastime of predicting where the ground will be when you\u2019ve completed your somersault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By then you\u2019ll probably be quite hungry, so you can sample some of the local cuisine, such as lampsand, pulverized rice that is fried over an oil lamp and served with a good book; or a grungelo, a purple, hairy fruit with bad table manners; or a woofle, a cross between a hot dog and a waffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This dictionary provides definitions for over five-hundred Hoptanglish words, making it an ideal introduction to the language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s all a bit fornoolishing, really.\u201d<br>\u2013 The Kettlebrook Gazepticle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the way you might catch a glimpse of some of the native life forms, such as the polliwatt, an electric tadpole; the junglefuzz, a wild, woolly sheep tousled to distraction; or the bazoobabushka, an old lady with a rocket launcher. When you arrive you may be invited to partake in some of the solemn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptanglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}