{"id":13806,"date":"2014-04-25T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13806"},"modified":"2014-04-25T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:29:09","slug":"cornish-recognized-as-official-uk-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13806","title":{"rendered":"Cornish recognized as official UK minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cornish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13807\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cornish.jpg\" alt=\"cornish\" width=\"220\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>The residents of England&#8217;s windswept, wave-lashed southwest are Europe&#8217;s newest official minority.<\/p>\n<p>The British government said Thursday Cornish people have been given the same status as Scots, Welsh and Irish \u2014 the U.K.&#8217;s other Celtic peoples \u2014 under EU law protecting national minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Cornwall traditionally spoke a Celtic language similar to that of France&#8217;s Brittany region. Cornwall is famous for its seafaring heritage and for the Cornish pasty, a popular lunch food.<\/p>\n<p>Some in Cornwall have long campaigned for greater autonomy, and even independence.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cole, leader of independence party Mebyon Kernow, said it was &#8220;a proud day for Cornwall,&#8221; though it is unclear what the status will mean in practice.<\/p>\n<p>The measure commits Britain to preserving and promoting the Cornish identity, but does not bring extra money.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Miami Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residents of England&#8217;s windswept, wave-lashed southwest are Europe&#8217;s newest official minority. The British government said Thursday Cornish people have been given the same status as Scots, Welsh and Irish \u2014 the U.K.&#8217;s other Celtic peoples \u2014 under EU law protecting national minorities. Residents of Cornwall traditionally spoke a Celtic language similar to that of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cornish recognized as official UK minority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[186,8851,8850,1946],"class_list":["post-13806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-britain","tag-cornish-minority","tag-cornwall","tag-uk"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cornish.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}