{"id":1481,"date":"2012-03-21T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:03:25","slug":"noam-chomsky-is-like-the-swamp-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky is like the Swamp King"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I first came here, this was all a swamp of structural linguistics.  Everyone said I was daft to build a Universal Grammar on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them.<\/p>\n<p>First I built a Transformational Grammar.  That sank into the swamp.<\/p>\n<p>Then I built a Government and Binding.  That fell over and sank into the swamp.<\/p>\n<p>So I built a Minimalist Program.  That burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp.<\/p>\n<p>But Recursion stayed up!<\/p>\n<p>Until that pesky <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Researchers-Findings-in-the\/131260\/\">Dan Everett<\/a> came up out of the Amazonian swamp&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apologies to Monty Python.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first came here, this was all a swamp of structural linguistics. Everyone said I was daft to build a Universal Grammar on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. First I built a Transformational Grammar. That sank into the swamp. Then I built a Government and Binding. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noam Chomsky is like the Swamp King&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}