{"id":255866,"date":"2007-09-12T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/12\/french-literature-in-peril\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","slug":"french-literature-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/12\/french-literature-in-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"French Literature in Peril!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article2434560.ece\" title=\"UK\"><i>Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>France\u2019s cultural heritage is in peril because students are shunning literature in favour of more practical courses that they believe will help them to secure well-paid jobs, the Education Minister said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Amid sweeping cultural changes, the term \u201cliterary\u201d has taken on a pejorative meaning for young French people, according to a report by the Education Ministry inspectorate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/?p=6701\">Ed Champion<\/a> for pointing this out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Times: France\u2019s cultural heritage is in peril because students are shunning literature in favour of more practical courses that they believe will help them to secure well-paid jobs, the Education Minister said. Amid sweeping cultural changes, the term \u201cliterary\u201d has taken on a pejorative meaning for young French people, according to a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,3426],"class_list":["post-255866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-french-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362386,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255866\/revisions\/362386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}