{"id":191,"date":"2013-01-26T18:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-01-26T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:31:33","slug":"language-log-tiny-grass-is-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/language-log-tiny-grass-is-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Log \u00bb Tiny grass is dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3978\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GrassDreaming.jpe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3978\">Language Log \u00bb Tiny grass is dreaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I found this gem through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevesilberman\">@stevesilberman<\/a>&#8216;s Twitter feed, I knew I had to blog it. I could talk about this as a product of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_context_culture\">higher context culture<\/a> than ours, but I prefer to talk about its delightfulness as a piece of communication.<\/p>\n<p>The world is full of harsh warnings and commands. Keep off the grass. Stop. Don&#8217;t Walk. No Soliciting. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. But it&#8217;s always better to invite someone into compliance than beat them into submission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not disturb: Tiny grass is dreaming&#8221; is a lovely reminder to lighten up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Language Log \u00bb Tiny grass is dreaming. When I found this gem through @stevesilberman&#8216;s Twitter feed, I knew I had to blog it. I could talk about this as a product of a higher context culture than ours, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/language-log-tiny-grass-is-dreaming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,77],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tierneys-posts","tag-courtesy","tag-playfulness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}