{"id":6293,"date":"2012-02-19T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2012-02-19T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:07:15","slug":"international-mother-language-day-21-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/02\/international-mother-language-day-21-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day 21 February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large or small, Indo-European or Inuit, endangered or killer, let&#8217;s celebrate our mother tongues on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/education\/themes\/strengthening-education-systems\/languages-in-education\/international-mother-language-day\/\">UNESCO<\/a>&#8216;s International Mother Language Day!<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t all die for language rights, like the Bangla-speaking students of the University of Dhaka who were killed on 21 February 1952, protesting the then Government of Pakistan&#8217;s decision to promote Urdu as the sole national language. But we CAN support this year&#8217;s theme which is yes! \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningteacher.eu\/news\/2012\/02\/international-mother-language-day-2012\">Mother tongue instruction and inclusive education<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/international-mother-language-day1.jpg\" alt=\"UNESO IMLD 2012 poster\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large or small, Indo-European or Inuit, endangered or killer, let&#8217;s celebrate our mother tongues on UNESCO&#8216;s International Mother Language Day! We don&#8217;t all die for language rights, like the Bangla-speaking students of the University of Dhaka who were killed on 21 February 1952, protesting the then Government of Pakistan&#8217;s decision to promote Urdu as the &#8230; <a title=\"International Mother Language Day 21 February 2012\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/02\/international-mother-language-day-21-february-2012\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about International Mother Language Day 21 February 2012\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[12,14,39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-indigenous-language-education","category-public-events","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}