{"id":103,"date":"2010-01-01T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:59:21","slug":"proofreading-part-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/proofreading-part-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading, part 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A funny thing about checking the letters like this is that you completely lose track of where you are in the Torah.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re writing, you say the words out loud as you&#8217;re going along. You&#8217;re going very slowly, so you might forget what was happening a few paragraphs before, but you know what&#8217;s happening in the part you&#8217;re writing.<\/p>\n<p>When you hear the letters coming at you, one after the other, and you&#8217;re focusing on them as individual letters and not as words, as a string and not as a text, you don&#8217;t have that awareness. At least, I don&#8217;t. Try it with a friend and a lump of English sometime, see what you make of it. It&#8217;s very interesting, I think \u2013 yet another perspective on the Torah text that I wouldn&#8217;t have suspected was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funny thing about checking the letters like this is that you completely lose track of where you are in the Torah. When you&#8217;re writing, you say the words out loud as you&#8217;re going along. You&#8217;re going very slowly, so you might forget what was happening a few paragraphs before, but you know what&#8217;s happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proofreading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}