{"id":18147,"date":"2023-05-01T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2023-05-01T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:39:28","slug":"the-avaldsnes-festival-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18147","title":{"rendered":"The Avaldsnes festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The unification of Norway 2022 Pt. 1: Avaldsnes Viking Festival\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpM9Z2tdQ8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I am a busy man.<\/strong> Busy, busy. Like a bee. Or a beaver. Or some other animal that starts with a &#8220;b.&#8221; Busy as a butterfly? Busy as a badger? Busy as Behemoth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I&#8217;ve got translation work today. Sweet translation work on a project which (as usual) I can&#8217;t tell you anything about. I will tell you (because it&#8217;s redundant) that it&#8217;s in Norwegian and I need to run it through the processors between my ears, extruding in the end an English script of rare beauty and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a good script, too. One I&#8217;m happy to be involved with. I will tell you that. I don&#8217;t think the lawyers will object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I&#8217;m only about a third of the way through the hypertrophied book I&#8217;m reading for review, so there wouldn&#8217;t be a review tonight anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, I found the video above. It&#8217;s by a guy I know nothing about, and my sharing it implies no endorsement of any kind. But he was at the Avaldsnes Viking Festival last summer when I was. So you can get the flavor of it. He missed a great opportunity, though, in not getting a shot of me in my Viking togs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a busy man. Busy, busy. Like a bee. Or a beaver. Or some other animal that starts with a &#8220;b.&#8221; Busy as a butterfly? Busy as a badger? Busy as Behemoth? Anyway, I&#8217;ve got translation work today. Sweet translation work on a project which (as usual) I can&#8217;t tell you anything about. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Avaldsnes festival 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,4688,3187,3272],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avaldsnes","tag-norse-reign","tag-translation","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18150,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions\/18150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}