{"id":1,"date":"2016-10-12T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-10-14T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T23:39:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/uncategorized\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something innately funny about Merriam-Webster\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3632231\/merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-2014\/\">announcement<\/a>, earlier this month, that \u201cculture\u201d is their 2014 Word of the Year. \u201cCulture\u201d is the \u201cScary Movie\u201d of words of the year, which, ordinarily, are supposed to reflect culture (&#8220;vape,\u201d &#8220;selfie\u201d) without actually being &#8220;culture.\u201d Merriam-Webster\u2019s editors are at pains to clarify that they weren\u2019t trying to be meta (which, incidentally, would\u2019ve made a great word of the year back in 2000). The word &#8220;culture,\u201d they explain, was simply the word that saw the biggest spike in look-ups on their Web site. Confusion about culture was just part of the culture this year. People were desperate to know what &#8220;culture\u201d meant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Rothman,\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em> &#8212; December 26, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something innately funny about Merriam-Webster\u2019s announcement, earlier this month, that \u201cculture\u201d is their 2014 Word of the Year. \u201cCulture\u201d&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/uncategorized\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl-117-fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}