{"id":491,"date":"2018-06-08T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kleinwolfpeters.com\/blog?p=491"},"modified":"2018-06-08T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:15:53","slug":"between-the-lines-richard-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=491&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Between the lines: Richard Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s the longest or most unusual word you\u2019ve used (in your texts) this week?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve always had a penchant for unusual, low-frequency words, but corporate communications don\u2019t always give me the chance to really work my word-hoard. Only today, I opted for the somewhat run-of-the-mill \u201cconstant\u201d over the decidedly more poetic \u201csteadfast\u201d to render the German word \u201ckonsequent\u201d for one of our customers, mindful of the fact that the target audience in this case was non-native English.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of all the languages you don\u2019t speak, which one would you most like to learn and why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I speak quite a few languages already, but (ignoring the ones I have just a smattering of) they\u2019re all Indo-European. It\u2019s about time I tried my hand at something from further afield \u2013 ideally with a new alphabet for me to learn, too, to up the challenge. I find Arabic calligraphy beautiful: perhaps I\u2019d start there.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are you reading right now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I\u2019d like to say that I \u2013 of course! \u2013 set aside time in my hectic daily schedule to sit at the feet of the literary greats. Way back when I was backpacking around the world, I got to grips with the likes of Dickens and Tolstoy. These days I rarely find a moment to curl up on the sofa with a good book. When I can, I enjoy SF; the untimely death in 2013 of Scottish writer Iain M. Banks saddened me greatly.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beer or wine?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Yes please, I\u2019m parched! (Sorry, I thought you were offering me a drink\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beach holiday or city break?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Whilst I enjoy spending a bit of time at the beach, I\u2019m more of a city break kind of guy, not least because that gives me a wider variety of things to photograph.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chocolate or vanilla?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Some people say plain vanilla is boring. I find that if you get the right one it can blow your mind!<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Klein Wolf Peters, people generate content for people \u2013 and our series of short interviews gives you a better idea of exactly who we are.<br \/>\nIn this issue: Richard Peters, Managing Director, Editor and Translator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[97,98,99,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}