{"id":9630,"date":"2017-03-20T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2017-03-19T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:03:00","slug":"precious-little-at-central-square-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/03\/20\/precious-little-at-central-square-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Precious Little at Central Square Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis truly the year of the linguist in popular culture (if theatre can be considered popular culture). Central Square Theater&#8217;s current season includes a play about a linguist, which several of our own linguists attended on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralsquaretheater.org\/shows\/precious-little\/\">Precious Little<\/a>, written by Madeleine George, explores the mind of linguist faced with the fact that her child may never be able to learn a language. The piece is thought provoking and the linguist humour is on point. We all enjoyed it thoroughly, and would recommend the show to anyone interested in linguistics and theatre!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis truly the year of the linguist in popular culture (if theatre can be considered popular culture). Central Square Theater&#8217;s current season includes a play about a linguist, which several of our own linguists attended on Saturday. Precious Little, written by Madeleine George, explores the mind of linguist faced with the fact that her child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}