{"id":18722,"date":"2026-05-30T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:16:39","slug":"taishanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/05\/30\/taishanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Taishanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201c[\u2026] up to the mid-20th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taishanese\">Taishanese<\/a> was the dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of [\u201cOverseas Chinese\u201d people] residing in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\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-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18725,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions\/18725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}