{"id":15081,"count":2,"description":"The term Gypsy (also 'gypsy' and less frequently 'gipsy'), is a common word sometimes used to indicate Romani people, Tinkers or Travellers. It may or may not be considered to carry pejorative connotations by those so described.\nThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states - a 'gypsy' is a\nAccording to the OED the word was first used in English in 1514, with several more uses in the same century, and that both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used this word.\nThe word Gypsy derives from the word Egyptian, similarly to the Spanish word Gitano and the French word Gitan. It emerged in Europe in the 15th century. They were known by the name \"Gypsy\" to local people either because they supposedly came from a land named \"Little Egypt\", or because some of them fit the European preconception of Egyptians. On their arrival at numerous places in Europe some groups claimed to be from Egypt, and that they were required to travel for seven years as penance for apostasy. During the sixteenth and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/gypsy\/","name":"Gypsy","slug":"gypsy","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}