{"id":1835,"date":"2016-04-05T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/random-quip-1662\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:07:45","slug":"random-quip-1662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-1662\/","title":{"rendered":"random quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 97% of the world&#8217;s people speak about 4% of the world&#8217;s languages; conversely, about 96% of the world&#8217;s languages are spoken by about 3% of the world&#8217;s people&#8230;. Even languages with many thousands of speakers are no longer being acquired by children; at least 50% of the world&#8217;s more than six thousand languages are losing speakers. We estimate that about 90% of all languages may be replaced by dominant languages by the end of the 21st century. -UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages, &#8220;Language Vitality and Endangerment&#8221;-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 97% of the world&#8217;s people speak about 4% of the world&#8217;s languages; conversely, about 96% of the world&#8217;s languages are spoken by about 3% of the world&#8217;s people&#8230;. Even languages with many thousands of speakers are no longer being acquired by children; at least 50% of the world&#8217;s more than six thousand languages are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-1662\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">random quip<\/span> <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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-tB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}