{"id":2931,"date":"2017-06-19T22:56:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2017-06-19T22:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:56:45","slug":"the-language-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2017\/06\/the-language-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand why everyone living in England should be forced to learn English. People living in Wales are not forced to learn Welsh and people living in Scotland are not foced to learn Celtic.<br \/>\nA country should have a broad range of available skills and having a range of spoken languages is part of that.<br \/>\nIt also means that when we are annoyed with someone, we can often insult them in a language they do not understand and avoid war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand why everyone living in England should be forced to learn English. People living in Wales are not forced to learn Welsh and people living in Scotland are not foced to learn Celtic. A country should have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2017\/06\/the-language-trap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}