{"id":6482,"date":"2015-09-08T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2015-09-08T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:40:51","slug":"on-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6482","title":{"rendered":"On translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admire good translators. But not when it is from Mandarin to Cantonese or any other Chinese dialects for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>A good translator doesn't just find precise words, but simple sentences as well. A live translation that's often longer than the original language in time is always bad, regardless of clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admire good translators. But not when it is from Mandarin to Cantonese or any other Chinese dialects for that matter. A good translator doesn't just find precise words, but simple sentences as well. A live translation that's often longer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}