{"id":30925,"date":"2012-02-19T02:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_digital_tools_to_save_languages\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T02:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:02:32","slug":"bbc_digital_tools_to_save_languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30925","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Digital tools &#39;to save languages&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world&#8217;s endangered languages, scientists believe.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 7,000 or so languages spoken on Earth today, about half are expected to be extinct by the century&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Globalisation is usually blamed, but some elements of the &#8220;modern world&#8221;, especially digital technology, are pushing back against the tide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17081573\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world&#8217;s endangered languages, scientists believe. Of the 7,000 or so languages spoken on Earth today, about half are expected to be extinct by the century&#8217;s end. Globalisation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30925\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,133,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-history","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}