{"id":64456,"date":"2017-09-13T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64456"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:54:10","slug":"telegraphing-the-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64456","title":{"rendered":"Telegraphing The Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>,\u00a0George Orwell postulated the ultimate achievement of Ingsoc as the replacement of English with &#8220;Duckspeak&#8221; &#8211; a language in which it would be impossible to conceive, much less verbalize, disagreement with Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>Who better <a href=\"https:\/\/georgelakoff.com\/2017\/09\/08\/why-hate-speech-is-not-free-speech\/amp\/\">to bring Duckspeak to life in the real world<\/a> than &#8220;progressive&#8221; linguist George Lakoff?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a01984,\u00a0George Orwell postulated the ultimate achievement of Ingsoc as the replacement of English with &#8220;Duckspeak&#8221; &#8211; a language in which it would be impossible to conceive, much less verbalize, disagreement with Big Brother. Who better to bring Duckspeak to life in the real world than &#8220;progressive&#8221; linguist George Lakoff? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64477,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64456\/revisions\/64477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}