{"id":1290,"date":"2023-05-27T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2023-05-29T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:42:45","slug":"opportunities-by-claudine-jacques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/opportunities-by-claudine-jacques\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Opportunities&#8221; by Claudine Jacques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my translation of Claudine Jacques&#8217; short story, &#8220;Opportunit\u00e9s&#8221; \/ &#8220;Opportunities&#8221; was published by <em>The AALITRA Review<\/em> in Melbourne. It&#8217;s about a young Frenchman who unexpectedly inherits a New Caledonian fortune, and the observations he makes of islanders who need possessions and those who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opportunit\u00e9s&#8221; is from her award winning 2020 collection <em>Caledonia Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story in both English and French, side by side, along with other translations and articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.latrobe.edu.au\/ojs\/index.php\/AALITRA\/issue\/view\/94\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my translation of Claudine Jacques&#8217; short story, &#8220;Opportunit\u00e9s&#8221; \/ &#8220;Opportunities&#8221; was published by The AALITRA Review in Melbourne. It&#8217;s about a young Frenchman who unexpectedly inherits a New Caledonian fortune, and the observations he makes of islanders who need possessions and those who don&#8217;t. &#8220;Opportunit\u00e9s&#8221; is from her award winning 2020 collection Caledonia Blues.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/opportunities-by-claudine-jacques\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Opportunities&#8221; by Claudine Jacques<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,100,41],"tags":[79,68,55,47,132,46,53,69,51],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-short-stories","category-translations","tag-aalitra-review","tag-claudine-jacques","tag-french-authors","tag-french-literature","tag-lifou","tag-literary-translation","tag-literature","tag-new-caledonia","tag-translation","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}