{"id":911,"date":"2015-11-13T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:06:10","slug":"what-is-ruining-the-english-language-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/what-is-ruining-the-english-language-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ruining The English Language Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">English (and German, for that matter) is under attack! Or so we are told constantly. The threat comes from text messages \/ the internet \/ young people \/ political correctness \/ foreigners \/ Americans &#8230;!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this is nothing new. People have always feared that their language was on the brink of collapse. Past &#8222;threats&#8220;\u00a0have even included the printing press and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1272px;\">\n<div style=\"left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2893%;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/KGOSZo?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English (and German, for that matter) is under attack! Or so we are told constantly. The threat comes from text messages \/ the internet \/ young people \/ political correctness \/ foreigners \/ Americans &#8230;! But this is nothing new. People have always feared that their language was on the brink of collapse. Past &#8222;threats&#8220;\u00a0have [&#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\/911"}],"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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}