{"id":2178,"date":"2026-10-02T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:07:04","slug":"lets-get-back-to-the-real-world-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get back to the real world, folks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that international translation day celebrations are over, and we\u2019ve all convinced ourselves\u2014that includes me, of course\u2014that professional translators are the best thing since sliced bread, it might be a good time to return to ground level and think seriously about what has already happened to the profession of translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of that needs to be active avoidance of what should be characterized as a level of denial and delusion on the part of both individual translators and their organizations that is not conducive to the development of useful strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extremely tough decisions need to be made, and those decisions need to be based on observable phenomena and facts, not wishful thinking and comfortable but baseless narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that international translation day celebrations are over, and we\u2019ve all convinced ourselves\u2014that includes me, of course\u2014that professional translators are the best thing since sliced bread, it might be a good time to return to ground level and think seriously about what has already happened to the profession of translation. Part of that needs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let\u2019s get back to the real world, folks.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-interpreting","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}