{"id":749,"date":"2019-05-30T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=749"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:19:45","slug":"season-xv-alphaday-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xv-alphaday-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XV &#8211; Alphaday 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi\nAlphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome\nto Alphaday 13, Season XV. Our annual break is coming up and this is our last\nformal Alphaday. There are only three items on the agenda but two of them concern\nthe final flourish of this season and the planning of the forth-coming season. That\nshould give you plenty to mull over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s\nagenda: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This\nbulletin from me<\/li><li>The\nresults and feedback for the Open Page 3<sup>rd<\/sup> edition<\/li><li>A\nsurvey of Alphas\u2019 views re. the current season and a call for suggestions for\nimprovements <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s\nno special Alpha news. We\u2019ll appoint and applaud this season\u2019s Alpha Laureate\nwhen I\u2019ve put the final Alpha Leaderboard together. Then we\u2019ll celebrate our\nachievements over the season with the usual extravaganza of virtual fireworks\nand champagne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s\nnothing to celebrate in the <strong>general news<\/strong>\n\u2013 if we accept that for most of us the EU elections have occupied the main\nplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\ndid find one interesting point in the proceedings, though. A linguistic one. I\nhave a friend who\u2019s a keen Esperantist. She goes to Esperanto classes and attends\na week-long annual conference somewhere with international participation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwas on duty at our local voting office this Sunday and looked through the many\nlists on display for voters to choose from. Amongst them I spotted the \u2018Europe\nDemocracy Esperanto\u2019 or the E-D-E. Their aim is to establish Esperanto as the\nofficial EU language rather than English. English does not seem appropriate for\nthe EU seeing that England wants to leave whereas Esperanto would do nicely. It\nrepresents a \u201ccommon human culture unencumbered by national frontiers\u201d. In the\nFrench EU elections it scored 0.08%, or \u2013 to put it differently \u2013 it was no. 20\nout of 34 lists and that gives some substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esperanto\nwas invented in 1887 and fits into the Indo-European linguistic family. Since\nthen it has attracted a lot of interest and a strong following in 120 different\ncountries. It\u2019s used officially at several universities and international\norganisations. Esperanto writers have been nominated for the Nobel Prize for\nliterature on three occasions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s\na thought, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonan\ntagon al vi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 13, Season XV. Our annual break is coming up and this is our last formal Alphaday. There are only three items on the agenda but two of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}