{"id":38935,"date":"2019-04-10T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38935"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:22:27","slug":"could-your-language-go-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38935","title":{"rendered":"Could your language go extinct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>At work in central Hong Kong, David Hand is surrounded by people speaking Chinese and English. But inside his home, the Welsh language rules. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hand&#8217;s three children &#8212; Arwen, Huw and Tomos &#8212; have never lived in Wales, spending their entire lives in Asia. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Inculcating his native language in them thousands of kilometers from the only place it is widely spoken wasn&#8217;t easy. As well as only speaking to them in Welsh himself, Hand hired nannies from Wales &#8212; usually teenagers taking time out between high school and university &#8212; and arranged for them live to with the family.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)At work in central Hong Kong, David Hand is surrounded by people speaking Chinese and English. But inside his home, the Welsh language rules. Hand&#8217;s three children &#8212; Arwen, Huw and Tomos &#8212; have never lived in Wales, spending their entire lives in Asia. Inculcating his native language in them thousands of kilometers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}