{"id":2160,"date":"2020-01-21T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2020-01-21T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:56:57","slug":"the-english-language-is-the-lingua-franca-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/21\/the-english-language-is-the-lingua-franca-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The English language is the &#8220;lingua franca&#8221; of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn 1986, there appeared a television series, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36\">&#8220;The Story of English.&#8221;<\/a> This series is not simply a history of the English language, but a story of how far the English language has spread, and how it dominates the world.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, there appeared a television series, titled &#8220;The Story of English.&#8221; This series is not simply a history of the English language, but a story of how far the English language has spread, and how it dominates the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}