{"id":17520,"date":"2018-07-22T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17520"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T17:40:09","slug":"every-day-another-language-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/22\/every-day-another-language-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery Day, Another Language Dies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I have a variety of concerns and dubiousnesses about Heather Altfeld\u2019s essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/every-day-another-language-dies\/\">Every Day, Another Language Dies<\/a>,\u201d published at Lit Hub in May. (Originally published in <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conjunctions.com\/print\/archive\/conjunctions70\">Conjunctions 70<\/a><\/cite>, under the title \u201cObituary for Dead Languages.\u201d)<\/p>\r\n<p>But I nonetheless found it a poetically lovely and sad eulogy for languages lost and languages we\u2019re losing, so I thought it was worth linking to.<\/p>\r\n<p>(On a side note, I see that \u201cEvery day, another language dies\u201d is nicely iambic; would make a good first line of a sonnet.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}