{"id":40,"date":"2004-05-23T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-05-23T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T13:53:00","slug":"lingua-franca-170301-the-newspeak-of-the-new-millenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Lingua Franca &#8211; 17\/03\/01: The Newspeak of the New Millenium&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/arts\/ling\/stories\/s256388.htm\">Lingua Franca &#8211; 17\/03\/01: The Newspeak of the New Millenium&#8230;<\/a>: &#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Saturday 17\/03\/01 <\/p>\n<p>The Newspeak of the New Millenium&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>At a recent Colloquium on &#8216;the power of the word&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>at Churchill College, Cambridge, the plain-speaking<br \/>\n<br \/>Nigerian writer and human rights campaigner<br \/>\n<br \/>WOLE SOYINKA attacked the language of political<br \/>\n<br \/>correctness. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lingua Franca &#8211; 17\/03\/01: The Newspeak of the New Millenium&#8230;: &#8221; Saturday 17\/03\/01 The Newspeak of the New Millenium&#8230; Summary: At a recent Colloquium on &#8216;the power of the word&#8217; at Churchill College, Cambridge, the plain-speaking Nigerian writer and human rights campaigner WOLE SOYINKA attacked the language of political correctness. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}