{"id":712,"date":"2005-04-13T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/712"},"modified":"2005-04-13T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T23:15:26","slug":"native-tongue-in-cheek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/712","title":{"rendered":"Native Tongue in Cheek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in from all over the place, apparently our legislators have decided to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/04\/12\/official.english.ap\/index.html\">English the official language of West Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As my friend Del (a WV native) said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hope this means the natives will finally learn to speak it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Score one for the forces of jingoism!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM the First<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/section\/News\/2005041341\/\">According to the Charleston Gazette, this language amendment won&#8217;t cause problems in the state<\/a>. Well, no. We don&#8217;t have a lot of non-English speakers here. But that really isn&#8217;t the point of the bill, is it? The point of the bill isn&#8217;t to save money by not having to write alternative language versions of state publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in from all over the place, apparently our legislators have decided to make English the official language of West Virginia. As my friend Del (a WV native) said: I hope this means the natives will finally learn to speak it. Score one for the forces of jingoism! ADDENDUM the First According to the Charleston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-bu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}