{"id":7396,"date":"2015-11-20T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2015-11-19T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T08:45:23","slug":"weird-english-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7396","title":{"rendered":"Weird English Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Allen Varney: <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages\">Why English is so weirdly different from other languages<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also via Allen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/123103-the-heartbreaking-truth-behind-snapes-first-words-to-harry-in-harry-potter\">the heartbreaking truth behind Snape&#8217;s first words to Harry Potter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker has a great longread about one of the most visible faces of the Westboro Baptist Church and how she ended up leaving it. The reason? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/11\/23\/conversion-via-twitter-westboro-baptist-church-megan-phelps-roper\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating look at privacy and security concerns arising from a new piece of technology: <a href=\"http:\/\/kernelmag.dailydot.com\/issue-sections\/features-issue-sections\/15018\/hello-barbie-security-concerns\/\">a talking Barbie doll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/search?tags=star-wars-week\">Star Wars Week at the AVClub<\/a> &#8211; all the Star Wars linky you could want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/19-11-2015\/media-anatomy-of-a-corporate-disaster-inside-weldon-and-glucinas-gossip-site-scout\/\">The Spinoff has a fascinating long report on what went on behind the scenes at &#8220;Scout&#8221;<\/a>, the entertainment\/gossip news hub for NZ media conglomerate Mediaworks. It&#8217;s a slow-motion trainwreck of epic proportions. Indicative anecdote: unpaid intern writes listicle about influential Kiwi youth and puts Lorde at the top; politically-connected head of Scout forces her to replace Lorde with the widely disdained son of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via Pearce &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/71281\/oral-history-30-years-ago-today-mr-snuffleupagus-shocked-sesame-street\">an oral history of when Mr Snuffleupagus was revealed to the grown-ups of Sesame Street<\/a>. Quite lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Allen Varney: Why English is so weirdly different from other languages Also via Allen: the heartbreaking truth behind Snape&#8217;s first words to Harry Potter The New Yorker has a great longread about one of the most visible faces of the Westboro Baptist Church and how she ended up leaving it. The reason? Twitter. Fascinating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weird English Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1Vi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}