{"id":901,"date":"2015-11-17T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-11-17T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:57:24","slug":"german-was-almost-the-official-language-of-the-usa-fact-or-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/german-was-almost-the-official-language-of-the-usa-fact-or-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"German was almost the official language of the USA &#8211; fact or myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of you may have heard the story that in the late 1700s German almost became\u00a0the official language of the USA, missing out by only a single vote. Well I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s not really true. But, like many such myths, there is a grain of truth around which this story grew. Find out more below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 950px;\">\n<div style=\"left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 62.7368%;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/2Q3Cg3?summary=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you may have heard the story that in the late 1700s German almost became\u00a0the official language of the USA, missing out by only a single vote. Well I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s not really true. But, like many such myths, there is a grain of truth around which this story grew. Find out more below: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}