{"id":5885,"date":"2006-08-01T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/2006\/08\/when-is-historical-information-not-informative\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:22:51","slug":"when-is-historical-information-not-informative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/08\/when-is-historical-information-not-informative\/","title":{"rendered":"When is historical information not informative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taemin at <a href=\"http:\/\/sanchonhunjang.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/on-tombs-and-translations.html\">Sanch&#8217;on hunjang<\/a> does an excellent job of taking apart the English information sign for a Chos\u014fn government official&#8217;s tomb in Seoul. The main point of the post is that these English-language sign boards for cultural properties (although they often seem to have decent English these days) are not actually all that informative for people who are not already experts on Korean history and culture. I would suspect that this category also includes a lot of Koreans too. Anyway, make sure you read it, it&#8217;s very good.<\/p>\n<p>I have a further question to add to his ones: what&#8217;s with the sheep (actually a ram if you look carefully at Taemin&#8217;s picture) at Chos\u014fn official tombs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taemin at Sanch&#8217;on hunjang does an excellent job of taking apart the English information sign for a Chos\u014fn government official&#8217;s tomb in Seoul. The main point of the post is that these English-language sign boards for cultural properties (although they often seem to have decent English these days) are not actually all that informative for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1wV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6174,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}