{"id":15465,"date":"2016-01-16T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2016-01-16T18:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:48:56","slug":"from-my-diary-369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2016\/01\/16\/from-my-diary-369\/","title":{"rendered":"From my diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two long works of Methodius of Olympus (d.311 AD) are preserved only in Old Slavonic: <em>De Autexusio<\/em> (=<em>On Free-Will<\/em>) and <em>De Resurrectione<\/em>.\u00a0 Yesterday I applied for some grant money to get these translated and put online.\u00a0 Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve never applied for grant funding before.\u00a0 The price is just beyond my means to do; but on the other hand, who knows when someone with the skills to create such a translation will be available again?\u00a0 Not for a century, that we know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I find the process rather intimidating.\u00a0 The online application is straightforward enough.\u00a0 But the regulations impose barriers to normal people.\u00a0 For instance, the grant body require that more than one source of funds is used &#8211; presumably to avoid them being blamed alone for a daft grant.\u00a0 But I actually don&#8217;t know any other body that might fund translations.\u00a0 Indeed I only discovered that they did so by accident!\u00a0 So this policy excludes people other than those with access to databases of grant-making bodies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one more way in which the charitable sector exists for itself, rather than the public.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However I have offered to put in some money myself, and with luck that will be enough for them.\u00a0 I must say that they have been reasonable enough to deal with so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve also commissioned a translation today of Proclus&#8217; <em>Encomium on St Nicholas of Myra<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another source of the legends which became Santa Claus.\u00a0 If this is really by Proclus of Constantinople, then it will be a 5th century source.\u00a0 Frankly I doubt that it is, despite my negligible knowledge of that author!\u00a0 It&#8217;s bound to be later.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only 5 pages of Anrich&#8217;s edition, tho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two long works of Methodius of Olympus (d.311 AD) are preserved only in Old Slavonic: De Autexusio (=On Free-Will) and De Resurrectione.\u00a0 Yesterday I applied for some grant money to get these translated and put online.\u00a0 Wish me luck! I&#8217;ve never applied for grant funding before.\u00a0 The price is just beyond my means to do; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[788,1124,1186,1474],"class_list":["post-15465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-grant-funding","tag-methodius","tag-nicholas-of-myra","tag-santa-claus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}