{"id":1349,"date":"2009-02-20T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/ditching-the-n-word-happy-weekend\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:48:17","slug":"ditching-the-n-word-happy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/ditching-the-n-word-happy-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching the N Word:  Happy Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aWjNcwacHKA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nEven if this is only half true, it&#39;s pretty amazing.&#0160; Next time we wonder about the impact of this election this is something to add to the equation.&#0160; Just ask an anthropologist or a semanticist or semioticist &#8212; or for that matter a historian: language forms perspective on ideas and this is, well, riveting.(H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Smith&#39;s Politico blog<\/a> for this clip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if this is only half true, it&#39;s pretty amazing.&#0160; Next time we wonder about the impact of this election this is something to add to the equation.&#0160; Just ask an anthropologist or a semanticist or semioticist &#8212; or for that matter a historian: language forms perspective on ideas and this is, well, riveting.(H\/T to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/ditching-the-n-word-happy-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ditching the N Word:  Happy Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,8,9],"tags":[282,810,809,811,92,290,813,812],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","category-music","category-politics","tag-election","tag-language","tag-n-word","tag-ngger","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-semantics","tag-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-lL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}