{"id":1859,"date":"2012-12-19T00:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2012-12-19T00:44:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T07:44:56","slug":"invented-language-finds-russian-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/12\/19\/invented-language-finds-russian-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented Language Finds Russian Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/12\/24\/121224fa_fact_foer?currentPage=all\">This story<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Joshua Foer about John Quijada, his invented language, Ithkuil, and it&#8217;s adoption by a cult-like group in Russia is fascinating on many levels. \u00a0Quijada seems much more realistic and modest regarding the significance of his work than others who work at the fringes of &#8220;academic respectability&#8221; and is charmingly torn between pride and puzzlement at its achieving a devoted following half a world away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story\u00a0by\u00a0Joshua Foer about John Quijada, his invented language, Ithkuil, and it&#8217;s adoption by a cult-like group in Russia is fascinating on many levels. \u00a0Quijada seems much more realistic and modest regarding the significance of his work than others who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/12\/19\/invented-language-finds-russian-fans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}