{"id":57,"date":"2012-05-11T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:59:03","slug":"a-language-for-life-chinua-achebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/2012\/05\/11\/a-language-for-life-chinua-achebe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Language for Life: Chinua Achebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"Chinua Achebe\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/files\/2012\/05\/ugly-face3-245x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/files\/2012\/05\/ugly-face3-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/files\/2012\/05\/ugly-face3.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><strong>Experience is unique and personal. It cannot be perfectly transferred, but through various artistic endeavours, experiences can be described\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to the effect that the reading\/viewing of these artworks present the audience with a new experience in themselves.\u00a0 This experience is one that can be shared by many over a wide range of places<\/strong>.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium\u00a0of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.\u2019 \u00a0 -Chinua Achebe<\/p>\n<p>-Maria Fowler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Experience is unique and personal. It cannot be perfectly transferred, but through various artistic endeavours, experiences can be described\u00a0 to the effect that the reading\/viewing of these artworks present the audience with a new experience in themselves.\u00a0 This experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/2012\/05\/11\/a-language-for-life-chinua-achebe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lw1503webpageproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}