{"id":25333,"date":"2007-08-30T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/08\/30\/somebody-actually-took-the-time-to-translate-my-book-into-japanese-it-appears\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:00:01","slug":"somebody-actually-took-the-time-to-translate-my-book-into-japanese-it-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070830-01\/?p=25333","title":{"rendered":"Somebody actually took the time to translate my book into Japanese, it appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea who they are (since I can&#8217;t read Japanese), but <a href=\"http:\/\/b.hatena.ne.jp\/\">hatena<\/a> appears to be some sort of Japanese social bookmarking site, and I&#8217;ll often find hits from them in my referrer logs. One of the members <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/tetsuarossa\/20070829\/p1\"> found a newly-issued Japanese translation of my book<\/a>, which opens up a whole new audience to my obnoxious personality.\n Stumbling across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/4756150004\"> the Japanese edition<\/a> was a bit of a surprise. I mean, yeah, the book contract has some paragraphs about translations, but seriously, who actually expects their book to be translated? That&#8217;s just standard book contract boilerplate stuff.<\/p>\n<p> What next, a movie deal? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea who they are (since I can&#8217;t read Japanese), but hatena appears to be some sort of Japanese social bookmarking site, and I&#8217;ll often find hits from them in my referrer logs. One of the members found a newly-issued Japanese translation of my book, which opens up a whole new audience to [&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-25333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I have no idea who they are (since I can&#8217;t read Japanese), but hatena appears to be some sort of Japanese social bookmarking site, and I&#8217;ll often find hits from them in my referrer logs. One of the members found a newly-issued Japanese translation of my book, which opens up a whole new audience to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333","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=25333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/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=25333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}