{"id":6798,"date":"2016-05-30T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2016-05-30T19:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T19:06:57","slug":"david-todd-roy-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2016\/05\/david-todd-roy-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"David Todd Roy has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Roy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Roy-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Roy\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Roy-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Roy.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This saddens me a great deal. I saw him speak years ago when only one volume of his\u00a0<em>Jin Ping Mei<\/em> translation was out, and I wondered if he would finish. He did of course, and my attitude was a pretty obnoxious one for a reader of an author or translator to have, but also a pretty common one. As you can tell from this <a href=\"https:\/\/tableau.uchicago.edu\/articles\/2013\/08\/lifetime-fascination\">interview<\/a>. it really was his life&#8217;s work, not an academic move forward in your career thing, and I am glad that he got to finish it and hear the entirely justified plaudits he got for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you are interested, the whole thing is available as an e-book, if like me you increasingly tend to read novels as e-books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This saddens me a great deal. I saw him speak years ago when only one volume of his\u00a0Jin Ping Mei translation was out, and I wondered if he would finish. He did of course, and my attitude was a pretty obnoxious one for a reader of an author or translator to have, but also a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[166,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1LE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}