{"id":22948,"date":"2013-11-01T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22948"},"modified":"2016-05-08T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T21:54:12","slug":"pushing-past-a-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22948","title":{"rendered":"Pushing past a plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Samhain Moon<\/p>\n<p>Latin. \u00a0Better today. \u00a0Greg pushing me to do sight reading at a higher level of proficiency. He wants me to read the Latin, without aids, and translate it for him during our sessions. This will entail, he says, going over each sentence or verse at least four times until it becomes embedded. \u00a0He believes this will push me off my current plateau.<\/p>\n<p>(old roman)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about this. \u00a0It will make my translation pop, he says. \u00a0At some point. \u00a0There is, though, the inevitable regression in terms of time, since this will make each sentence take longer. How much longer I can&#8217;t tell yet because I haven&#8217;t practiced it. \u00a0It does mean I&#8217;m headed in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Samhain Moon Latin. \u00a0Better today. \u00a0Greg pushing me to do sight reading at a higher level of proficiency. He wants me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing past a plateau<\/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":[2109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948","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=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38826,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions\/38826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}