{"id":4186,"date":"2011-03-30T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:13:11","slug":"you-are-what-you-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"&quot;You Are What You Speak&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=brandbooks-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0553807870\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:left;margin:8px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2011-03-21\/robert-lane-greene-you-are-what-you-speak\">Author Robert Lane Greene has a good interview<\/a> with NPR&#8217;s Diane Rehm on his book, <i>You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity<\/i>. Many of his points are great, and it&#8217;s amusing that people have been complaining about the death of their language for centuries. Greene says slang will always be in a living language, and most of it will pass with times, but the idea that how we speak defines us to a large degree is critical. Perhaps that is another reason memorizing Scripture is vital to healthy living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Robert Lane Greene has a good interview with NPR&#8217;s Diane Rehm on his book, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity. Many of his points are great, and it&#8217;s amusing that people have been complaining about the death of their language for centuries. Greene says slang will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;You Are What You Speak&quot;<\/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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}