{"id":288236,"date":"2011-11-22T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/11\/22\/alta-2011-translators-going-wild-bull-riding\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:50","slug":"alta-2011-translators-going-wild-bull-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/11\/22\/alta-2011-translators-going-wild-bull-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"ALTA 2011: Translators Going Wild [Bull Riding]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do have some serious things to say about <span class=\"caps\">ALTA<\/span> 2011, which took place in Kansas City last week, but I&#8217;m trying to power through a few big things here before the Thanksgiving vacation, so I&#8217;m probably going to reserve those legit posts for next week. Instead, let&#8217;s talk about riding a mechanical bull.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City is a fun place that is filled with bar-be-que, concealed weapons, and mechanical bulls. To celebrate this fine heritage, I thought it would be fun if a big group of translators went down to <span class=\"caps\">PBR<\/span> Big Sky (the <span class=\"caps\">PBR<\/span> stands for &#8220;Professional Bull Riding,&#8221; <span class=\"caps\">FYI<\/span>) to ride a mechanical bull and <del>shoot bullets into the sky<\/del> try on cowboy hats. <\/p>\n<p>To make this more interesting, I thought this could be the first of the &#8220;Feats of Translators&#8221; series here at Open Letter Books. See, rather than spending all this time reading and evaluating books, I think we should institute a new editorial policy whereby certain books are published based on which translators win particular contests. Like, you know, a scavenger hunt, or a Words With Friends tournament, or bull riding . . . <\/p>\n<p>Based on the enticing possibility of having a book published by Open Letter, about <del>100<\/del> 9 of us went to <span class=\"caps\">PBR<\/span> and rode that bull. Actually, all of us rode the bull except for Scott Esposito, who decided that he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;manly&#8221; enough. (Which is maybe why he overcompensates at the beginning of this video by yelling &#8220;F*&amp;^ you, Chad Post!&#8221; Some people . . . )<\/p>\n<p>There are videos of all the riders, but I thought I&#8217;d just post mine since I decided that I won. (Our &#8220;timekeeping&#8221; sort of malfunctioned, so I win by default of having gone first. Publisher&#8217;s rules!) <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. And yes, &#8220;Wild Thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27-z-TOO5uA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do have some serious things to say about ALTA 2011, which took place in Kansas City last week, but I&#8217;m trying to power through a few big things here before the Thanksgiving vacation, so I&#8217;m probably going to reserve those legit posts for next week. Instead, let&#8217;s talk about riding a mechanical bull. Kansas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[28366,44126,7666,416],"class_list":["post-288236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alta","tag-bull-riding","tag-chad-w-post","tag-scott-esposito"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342216,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288236\/revisions\/342216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}