{"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 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 [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}