{"id":562,"date":"2007-07-10T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2007-07-10T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:57:05","slug":"should-we-simplify-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Should we simplify spelling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English language &#8211; which is, of course, now the global language &#8211; is relatively easy to learn and exceptionally hard to master. One of the major problems with English is the inconsistent spelling and pronunciation. This has led some to argue for a simplified system of spelling.<br \/>\nThere is a fascinating debate on this question on BBC on-line today &#8211; you&#8217;ll find it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/6250184.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English language &#8211; which is, of course, now the global language &#8211; is relatively easy to learn and exceptionally hard to master. One of the major problems with English is the inconsistent spelling and pronunciation. This has led some to argue for a simplified system of spelling. There is a fascinating debate on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}