{"id":20269,"date":"2024-12-04T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20269"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:00:53","slug":"writing-update-and-a-norwegian-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20269","title":{"rendered":"Writing update and a Norwegian Christmas song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julemorgen: O jul med din glede\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OsH0NuXllaA?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>Writing\/publishing update: <\/strong>I\u2019ve worked my way through <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Warrior-Lars-Walker-ebook\/dp\/B00BXKFXI0\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28BHBSZVQK6TR&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.q4poOI_GOKeF65IKTQnPcg.d8vQWVPX1OLSnXr4MD2LYWgm4wixNZQR24G-QMJlQJQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+year+of+the+warrior+lars+walker&amp;qid=1733360131&amp;sprefix=the+year+of+the+warrior%2Caps%2C155&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">The Year of the Warrior<\/a><\/em> to prepare a paper version for Kindle Direct Publishing. (Note: This is a very long book. If sheer mass of paper is gauge of literary greatness, I\u2019m on a level with Sigrid Undset and Tolkien and Tolstoy.) I\u2019ve tried to clean it up, fix automatically generated punctuation problems, add a comma here and there where I thought it would aid reader comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So tomorrow I figure I\u2019ll try to upload it. I anticipate that this will not work. This book is different from the others, because Baen Books still publishes the e-book (at my request). Will the Amazon system accept a paper version from somebody else? I expect there will be problems with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon\u2019s customer service has actually worked well for me in the past. I just figure there\u2019ll be hoops to jump through. I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above, a sweet little video<\/strong> from NRK, the Norwegian state broadcasting service, with one of Norway\u2019s favorite Christmas songs, <em>\u00c5 Jul Med Din Glede.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first verse means something like this (literal; no attempt at versification):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">O Christmas with your happiness, oh childlike desire,<br>We all bid you welcome. <br>We all greet you with jubilant voices,<br>Ten-thousand times welcome!<br>We clap our hands, we sing and we laugh, <br>So glad we are, so glad we are. <br>We swing around in a circle and curtsey \u2013 and bow.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing\/publishing update: I\u2019ve worked my way through The Year of the Warrior to prepare a paper version for Kindle Direct Publishing. (Note: This is a very long book. If sheer mass of paper is gauge of literary greatness, I\u2019m on a level with Sigrid Undset and Tolkien and Tolstoy.) I\u2019ve tried to clean it up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing update and a Norwegian Christmas song<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-20269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/20269","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=20269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20271,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}