{"id":4190,"date":"2026-07-12T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:00:08","slug":"lingua-franca-how-language-and-cycling-have-shaped-italian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"Lingua franca: how language and cycling have shaped Italian culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rouleur.cc\/culture\/lingua-franca-how-language-and-cycling-have-shaped-italian-culture\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Lingua franca: how language and cycling have shaped Italian culture\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/5251\/6910\/articles\/OFS_Coppi-Giro_1951_01.jpg?v=1595955303\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.rouleur.cc<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Lingua franca: how language and cycling have shaped Italian culture<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Italy is riven by divides \u2013 physical, linguistic and cultural. In this column for the 17.3 edition of Rouleur, Matt Rendell considers cycling&#8217;s role in unifying the nation<\/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":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","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=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}