{"id":260,"date":"2026-02-22T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:37:27","slug":"ask-a-bookseller-a-few-books-for-understanding-how-language-gets-weaponized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Bookseller: A few books for understanding how language gets weaponized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/episode\/2026\/02\/06\/ask-a-bookseller-a-few-books-for-understanding-how-language-gets-weaponized\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Ask a Bookseller: A few books for understanding how language gets weaponized\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.apmcdn.org\/1902e9ce9401f1bb54e5f5150cec29791b067a63\/widescreen\/61dfd4-20230512-ask-a-bookseller-podcast-2000.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.mprnews.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Ask a Bookseller: A few books for understanding how language gets weaponized\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">With the surge of ICE operations in Minnesota now in its third month, indie bookstore owners\u00a0in the Twin Cities and beyond say that customers are coming\u00a0in looking for three things: community, books to help them understand\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0happening, and books to help them escape.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}