{"id":1331,"date":"2009-02-03T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2018-11-04T03:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T22:28:21","slug":"save-the-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/save-the-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethewords.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/save_the_words.jpg\" alt=\"save_the_words.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. Old words, wise words, hard-working words. Words that once led meaningful lives but now lie abandoned and forgotten.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can do your part. Help save the words! If not for yourself, then for generations to come. Now, you may ask, \u201cWhat have future generations done for us lately?\u201d Well, not much. But one day they\u2019ll be grateful. You never know, they may even have a word to say about you\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above is from <em>Save the Words<\/em>\u2014if you\u2019re a lover of neglected words, check it out\u00a0<del>here<\/del> (where you can adopt a word, spread the word, etc.).<em> Thanks to David Coates for the link. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Along a similar vein (protecting endangered words), below is one of a series of greeting cards for <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whatclayart.com\/?p=225\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What? Clay Art &amp; Curios<\/em><\/a> that we developed last year (<em>\u201cGiglet\u201d<\/em> was first used by Will Shakespeare to describe a giddy, frolicsome girl\u2014a word worth saving). More word rescue efforts are underway\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/giglet.jpg\" alt=\"giglet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. Old words, wise words, hard-working words. Words that once led meaningful lives but now lie abandoned and forgotten. You can do your part. Help save the words! If not for yourself, then for generations to come. Now, you may ask, \u201cWhat have future generations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,8,11,13,14,15,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16567,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/16567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}