{"id":322,"date":"2010-06-20T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-06-20T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T01:33:10","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Catching up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since anything new has been posted to the blog (or the library). <em>Mea culpa<\/em>. I&#8217;ve had some enhancements and improvements planned for The Conlanger&#8217;s Library and have slowly been working on them, but they&#8217;re still not ready for prime-time. Stay tuned. Some of the proposed additions include new navigation, some back-end coding, and a Contact page. As anyone can see, these have not been implemented&#8230;yet. I had intended on doing those and making announcements here on the blog, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_a_Mouse\">&#8220;The best laid schemes o&#8217; mice an&#8217; men gang aft agley&#8221;<\/a>. Those things are still in-the-works, but I wanted to post <em>something<\/em> to keep the blog and the Library at least marginally up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>First, several new postings have been made to the Library. Check out the &#8220;Most Recent Updates&#8221; box at the home page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\">Library<\/a>. These include a new paperback edition of Arika Okrent&#8217;s book and two Dothraki postings to the <em>Scientific American<\/em> online Guest Blog (one by Sai Emrys and David J. Peterson (Mr. Dothraki himself!)).<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t followed the blog closely, we&#8217;ve had a very interesting <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=301\">conversation<\/a> between David J. Peterson, myself, and several other posters on the topic of &#8220;Fantasy&#8221; literature, its past and present.<\/p>\n<p>The Conlanging Librarian is also the official &#8220;twitterer&#8221; (or is that &#8220;tweeter&#8221;?) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/conlang.org\">Language Creation Society<\/a> (LCS) at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiatLingua\">Fiat Lingua<\/a>, also the title of the upcoming journal the LCS.<\/p>\n<p>So, enjoy the Library, and look forward to a few enhancements in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>Fiat lingua!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since anything new has been posted to the blog (or the library). Mea culpa. I&#8217;ve had some enhancements and improvements planned for The Conlanger&#8217;s Library and have slowly been working on them, but they&#8217;re still not ready for prime-time. Stay tuned. Some of the proposed additions include new navigation, some back-end coding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[70,20,60,82],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-additions","tag-dothraki","tag-library","tag-okrent","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}