{"id":582,"date":"2008-01-10T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/language_beauty_contest\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:25:43","slug":"language_beauty_contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Language beauty contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolang.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3007&#038;Itemid=1&#038;lang=en\">Eurolang<\/a>, Estonia&#8217;s Education Minister is planning to hold a language beauty contest to mark the 90th birthday of the Republic of Estonia. The minister would like school children around the world to make recordings of up to seven words in their languages. The article doesn&#8217;t mention who will be judging the entrants or how they&#8217;ll go about it.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of anything like this before?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eurolang, Estonia&#8217;s Education Minister is planning to hold a language beauty contest to mark the 90th birthday of the Republic of Estonia. The minister would like school children around the world to make recordings of up to seven words in their languages. The article doesn&#8217;t mention who will be judging the entrants or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}