{"id":2152,"date":"2026-07-23T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-golden-age-of-language-was-a-few-thousand-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:01:34","slug":"the-golden-age-of-language-was-a-few-thousand-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-golden-age-of-language-was-a-few-thousand-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The golden age of language was a few thousand years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today. Source: Science News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}