{"id":15049,"date":"2022-10-17T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2022-10-16T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T01:25:12","slug":"degraff-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/17\/degraff-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGraff in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14, a guest essay by our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/degraff\/\">Michel DeGraff<\/a> appeared in the New York Times: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/14\/opinion\/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html\">As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself<\/a>&#8221;. The essay details in a personal and powerful way the effects of language policy on Haitian education and identity, and advocates for the types of change that are promoted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/haiti.mit.edu\">MIT-Haiti Initiative<\/a>. Congratulations, Michel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14, a guest essay by our very own Michel DeGraff appeared in the New York Times: &#8220;As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself&#8221;. The essay details in a personal and powerful way the effects of language policy on Haitian education and identity, and advocates for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15050,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions\/15050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}