{"id":424,"date":"2007-01-14T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/01\/14\/icelandic-photos-on-line\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T14:21:15","slug":"icelandic-photos-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/01\/icelandic-photos-on-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Photos On-Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas it took us five months to get the photos of our summer trip on-line, it&#8217;s taken us only a week to prepare the <a href=\"\/gallery\/v\/iceland0107\/\">photos of our most recent trip to Iceland<\/a>. It definitely helped that there were several thousand fewer of them.<\/p>\n\n<p>More than ever before, Sarah and I felt very comfortable in Iceland on this trip. It&#8217;s very easy to imagine living there at some point in the future. The language is the only major obstacle, but that, too, is surmountable, of course.<\/p>\n\n<p>In fact, I purchased a couple of books from a Reykjav&iacute;k bookshop to help me learn Icelandic. I already knew it to be a difficult language, essentially unchanged from the Old Norse spoken 1000 years ago, but now I&#8217;ve seen the grammatical evidence. With its multiple genders, declensions and inflections, Icelandic is going to be a major challenge to learn, especially at a distance (where I have no opportunity to speak it or have my mistakes corrected). It remains to be seen whether I can summon enough discipline to dedicate enough time to the endeavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas it took us five months to get the photos of our summer trip on-line, it&#8217;s taken us only a week to prepare the photos of our most recent trip to Iceland. It definitely helped that there were several thousand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/01\/icelandic-photos-on-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}