{"id":23993,"date":"2007-12-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/12\/28\/now-i-can-read-my-own-writing-the-way-you-do-with-utter-incomprehension\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:00:01","slug":"now-i-can-read-my-own-writing-the-way-you-do-with-utter-incomprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20071228-01\/?p=23993","title":{"rendered":"Now I can read my own writing the way you do: With utter incomprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In my mailbox yesterday arrived a few complimentary copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/08\/30\/4636568.aspx\"> the Japanese translation of my book<\/a>. (Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321440307?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tholneth-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0321440307\"> Still available in English<\/a>.) I cracked the Japanese edition open and confirmed what I already knew: I can&#8217;t read a lick of Japanese. <\/p>\n<p> But now I know how you all feel when you read this Web site: It&#8217;s page after page of text that makes no sense whatsoever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my mailbox yesterday arrived a few complimentary copies of the Japanese translation of my book. (Note: Still available in English.) I cracked the Japanese edition open and confirmed what I already knew: I can&#8217;t read a lick of Japanese. But now I know how you all feel when you read this Web site: It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-23993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In my mailbox yesterday arrived a few complimentary copies of the Japanese translation of my book. (Note: Still available in English.) I cracked the Japanese edition open and confirmed what I already knew: I can&#8217;t read a lick of Japanese. But now I know how you all feel when you read this Web site: It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}