{"id":2192,"date":"2021-08-17T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:53:26","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been enjoying getting to know the work of translator\/poet\/essayist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/apr\/09\/books-interview-michael-hofmann-anglo-german-poet-critic-translator\">Michael Hoffman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Without an active sense of mischief, he says, translators can easily become bitter people. \u201cNobody sees what you are doing, and the minute you do something, people cry \u2018Mistake, mistake!\u2019 If done in that way, it feels almost parasitic upon literature. &#8230; That\u2019s partly why I have mostly ended up translating dead people. They are more appreciative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been enjoying getting to know the work of translator\/poet\/essayist Michael Hoffman. Without an active sense of mischief, he says, translators can easily become bitter people. \u201cNobody sees what you are doing, and the minute you do something, people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/gratitude\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-gratitude-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}