{"id":15071,"date":"2012-07-03T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2012-07-03T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:40:06","slug":"still-advancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15071","title":{"rendered":"Still Advancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Under the Lily Moon<\/p>\n<p>My translating pace has picked up noticeably with fewer headaches and WTF&#8217;s. \u00a0This encourages me; I might be able to set a pace for translating rather than just slogging through as many verses as I could manage. \u00a0Over the course of a particular period of time, for example, I could finish a whole book. \u00a0There are fifteen books in all in the Metamorphoses. \u00a0Wow.<\/p>\n<p>This is exciting for me. \u00a0It means I&#8217;ve actually learned a new skill. \u00a0I&#8217;m far from perfect in my translation and have a long ways to go before I can produce my own confident idiomatic English translations, but I can see that moment coming.<\/p>\n<p>So, this afternoon. \u00a0Rembrandt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Under the Lily Moon My translating pace has picked up noticeably with fewer headaches and WTF&#8217;s. \u00a0This encourages me; I might be able to set a pace for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Advancing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translating-metamorphoses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}