{"id":13614,"date":"2015-12-23T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2015-12-23T05:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T05:54:38","slug":"english-what-is-a-barnburner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-barnburner\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  what is a barnburner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares another term from the farming culture he grew up in.<\/h1>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often hear the word &#8220;barnburner,&#8221; but of course I don&#8217;t live in the culture it&#8217;s probably from.  Neither my<em> Webster&#8217;s<\/em>, nor my <em>Collins<\/em>, contains it, but my<em> Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em> does.<\/p>\n<p>A barnburner is a positively sensational event.  For example, a party at which everyone had a memorably fun and exciting time might be considered a &#8220;barnburner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May the term apply to holiday festivities that are intended to be thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares another term from the farming culture he grew up in. I don&#8217;t often hear the word &#8220;barnburner,&#8221; but of course I don&#8217;t live in the culture it&#8217;s probably from. Neither my Webster&#8217;s, nor my Collins, contains it, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-is-a-barnburner\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  what is a barnburner?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181],"tags":[1288,1289],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-lifestyle","tag-barnburner","tag-folk-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}