{"id":17401,"date":"2013-07-04T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2013-07-04T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:34:49","slug":"my-work-as-a-translator-spotlighted-on-intralingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17401","title":{"rendered":"My Work as a Translator &#8220;Spotlighted&#8221; on Intralingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Carter\u00a0has been running a series on her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/intralingo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Intralingo<\/a>, in which she spotlights literary translators, and she&#8217;s just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/intralingo.com\/spotlight-on-literary-translator-richard-jeffrey-newman\/\" target=\"_blank\">mine<\/a>. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from my answer to her question\u00a0<em>What do you love most and least about [translating]?<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hat I have been enjoying most about [translation] is the feeling of making something. I have always liked e. e. cummings\u2019 statement\u2014though I am paraphrasing here\u2014that a poet is someone who is in love with making things not with made things; and building my translations brings me tremendous satisfaction in that regard. I am also gratified by the sense that I am building bridges between two cultures that very much need to talk to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through this series, Lisa is providing a wonderful service to literary translators, who rarely get the credit (not to mention compensation) they deserve. I hope you&#8217;ll click on over <a href=\"http:\/\/intralingo.com\/spotlight-on-literary-translator-richard-jeffrey-newman\/\" target=\"_blank\">to read the whole thing<\/a>, and I hope you&#8217;ll check out some of her other posts as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Carter\u00a0has been running a series on her blog, Intralingo, in which she spotlights literary translators, and she&#8217;s just posted mine. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from my answer to her question\u00a0What do you love most and least about [translating]? [W]hat I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17405,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions\/17405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}