{"id":788,"date":"2010-08-22T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/tao-updates\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:36:05","slug":"tao-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/tao-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New with Getting Right with Tao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/getting-right-with-tao.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" \/>It&#8217;s been a few months since Channel V Books and I got together to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/wordpress\/tao-te-ching\"><i>Getting Right with Tao<\/i><\/a>, a print edition of my modern adaptation of the Tao Te Ching, and it&#8217;s been exciting to see how the book continues to strike a chord with readers&#8212;like a post earlier this month at the <i>American Taoist<\/i> blog, which looked at three chapters in my version to consider <a href=\"http:\/\/americantaoist.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/14\/the-neutrality-of-tao\/\">the neutrality of Tao<\/a>. I&#8217;m particularly excited by a new project that&#8217;s taking shape at <i>The Rambling Taoist<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Line%20by%20Line\">a line-by-line analysis of the Tao Te Ching<\/a> that juxtaposes my version with more established translations by James Legge, Derek Lin, and Gia-fu Feng and Jane English&#8212;this last likely being one of the most well-known apart from the Stephen Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>I read through a lot of different translations of the <i>Tao Te Ching<\/i> as I was writing my adaptation, but that was a long time ago&#8230; and, in any event, it&#8217;s very illuminating for me to see what somebody else who&#8217;s spent much more time than I have thinking about Taoism thinks of my effort, and how the message I was trying to impart holds up against Lao Tzu&#8217;s original wisdom. This line-by-line approach is clearly going to take a while; it&#8217;s nearly two weeks in, and we&#8217;re still on the second chapter. But I&#8217;m looking forward to what I might learn from the Rambling Taoist as his exegesis unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since Channel V Books and I got together to publish Getting Right with Tao, a print edition of my modern adaptation of the Tao Te Ching, and it&#8217;s been exciting to see how the book continues to strike a chord with readers&#8212;like a post earlier this month at the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}