{"id":93,"date":"2009-12-26T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T02:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:54:04","slug":"proofreading-part-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/proofreading-part-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading, part 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a keen Torah reader myself, I&#8217;m well aware of those horrible moments when you&#8217;re reading along and you look at the Torah and you think \u201chuh? what on EARTH is that?!\u201d When I&#8217;m proofreading, I try to pick up on that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<div style=\u201dtext-align:center;\u201d><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/kosherconfusing1.png\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"kosher but confusing\"><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example. That mem and nun are a bit too close together for comfort, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<div style=\u201dtext-align:center;\u201d><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/kosherconfusing2.png\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"kosher but confusing\"><\/div>\n<p>The letters aren&#8217;t actually touching each other, so they are kosher as they stand, but they&#8217;re close enough that they&#8217;d make me, as a reader, stop and look more closely. Well, I don&#8217;t like that when I&#8217;m reading, and I&#8217;m a huge fan of \u201cWhat is hateful to you, do not do unto others,\u201d so when I&#8217;m proofreading I try to fix that sort of thing, even if technically it doesn&#8217;t <i>need<\/i> to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a keen Torah reader myself, I&#8217;m well aware of those horrible moments when you&#8217;re reading along and you look at the Torah and you think \u201chuh? what on EARTH is that?!\u201d When I&#8217;m proofreading, I try to pick up on that sort of thing. Here&#8217;s an example. That mem and nun are a bit [&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-93","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\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}