{"id":23243,"count":1,"description":"In Scouting, a jamboree is a large gathering of Scouts who rally at a national or international level.\nThe 1st World Scout Jamboree was held in 1920, and was hosted by the United Kingdom. Since then, there have been twenty two World Scout Jamborees, hosted in various countries, generally every four years.\nThere are also national and continental jamborees held around the world with varying frequency. Many of these events will invite and attract Scouts from overseas.\nAccording to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the etymology is \"19th century, origin unknown\". Poet Robert W. Service used the term well before the first Scouting jamboree. It appears in the poem \"Athabaska Dick\" in his Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, which was published in 1912. At the time, the word meant a rowdy, boisterous gathering.\nBaden-Powell was once asked why he chose \"jamboree\". He replied, \"What else would you call it?\", a response that makes sense if the word already means a boisterous gathering.\nNonetheless, it is...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/jamboree\/","name":"Jamboree","slug":"jamboree","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/23243","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=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}