{"id":94,"date":"2006-08-09T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=94"},"modified":"2006-08-09T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T18:32:37","slug":"if-this-be-treason-translation-and-its-dyscontents-by-gregory-rabassanew-directions-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/if-this-be-treason-translation-and-its-dyscontents-by-gregory-rabassanew-directions-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents by Gregory RabassaNew Directions, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a discussion of translation and what a translator might or might not betray (the original words, the original language, the original author, the language being translated into, etc), Rabassa launches into his own career as a translator of books from the spanish and portuguese. His wit and word-play are pleasing, as are his discussions of the difficulties of particular books and his friendships with particular authors. Because what he says about the texts he&#8217;s translated tends to be well-explained, I didn&#8217;t feel lost for not having read many of the works in question &#8212; though by the end of the book, I had added several titles to my running list of books I want to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a discussion of translation and what a translator might or might not betray (the original words, the original language, the original author, the language being translated into, etc), Rabassa launches into his own career as a translator of books from the spanish and portuguese. His wit and word-play are pleasing, as are his discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}