{"id":4675,"date":"2013-02-27T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:49:46","slug":"pastagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4675","title":{"rendered":"Pastagate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4676\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/netaliba.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately about Quebec&#8217;s recent language police fiasco, an overzealous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca\/\">Office qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la langue fran\u00e7aise<\/a> cracking down on an Italian restaurant for its use of the non-French word &#8220;pasta&#8221; and other, similar terms on its menu. Of course I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about it lately; apparently, its news coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/02\/26\/quebecs-pastagate-pr-nightmare-story-gets-60-times-more-coverage-outside-province-than-marois-investment-trip\">exceeded by a factor of 60<\/a> (!) the coverage Quebec premier Pauline Marois received during her recent trip to drum up foreign investment in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I could go on lamenting the superficiality of the news media these days, and I think I would be right. But I am thinking about Pastagate now for a different reason: I am wondering if I am the only one seeing strong parallels between a zealous police force guarding the integrity of a language and a zealous police force guarding the integrity of a religion.<\/p>\n<p>At least officers of the language police do not come with canes.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4675' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately about Quebec&#8217;s recent language police fiasco, an overzealous Office qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la langue fran\u00e7aise cracking down on an Italian restaurant for its use of the non-French word &#8220;pasta&#8221; and other, similar terms on its menu. Of course I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about it lately; apparently, its news coverage <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4675' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,53,5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-language","category-politics","category-religion","category-22-id","category-53-id","category-5-id","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}