{"id":6290,"date":"2012-01-04T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:12:46","slug":"its-all-in-the-fucking-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6290","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all in the fucking translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to put it another way: \u00a0Context Is Everything Stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I say that to me a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>There are common sense rules, right? Rules of such blindingly obvious, erm, obviousness that only an utter twat would deliberately break them.<\/p>\n<p>Rules like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stick your head in the fire<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t pee on your bosses desk when s\/he&#8217;s sitting behind it<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t go back to your ex, and<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t, under any circumstances, redefine the scope of the big literary project you&#8217;ve been working on for a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, that last one.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, and I&#8217;m no stranger to scope-creep in a variety of environments, so yeah, the thing is, what I want to do, what I really, really, want to do is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>Not sit down and finish writing Shelved.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t want to do that write now.<\/p>\n<p>Hahahaha! Oh, what a joke.<\/p>\n<p>OK then, no, I don&#8217;t want to do that right now.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to do now, what I really, really want to do, what I feel highly motivated &#8211; even, maybe, to use a better word, driven &#8211; to do right now, is to sit down and produce the slickest piece of dark, dark, black, dark, blackermost, darkest, wry, hyperdark, bittersweet comedy that my brain can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, this desire is a good reflection of where my head is <del>write now<\/del> right now.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s also a fair barometer of how I feel, emotionally, as well as mentally; but neither of these things are bad things.<\/p>\n<p>If I can channel these feelings, this desire, in to a more creative outlet I could have a bloody good stab at producing something that (to be honest) no mainstream TV company would touch with a bargepole.<\/p>\n<p>But it might make a good radio play.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*puts on black shoes, black socks, black trousers, black jumper and dark-glasses*<\/p>\n<p>*sits and thinks black thoughts*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to put it another way: \u00a0Context Is Everything Stupid. I say that to me a lot. Here&#8217;s what I mean. There are common sense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}