{"id":1462,"date":"2010-02-24T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T02:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-24\/1462"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T02:11:58","slug":"wild-boar-free-audio-book-by-anthony-friedl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-24\/1462","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wild Boar&#8221;, Free Audio Book by Anthony Friedl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1462'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For something a little bit different, here's <span class='nobr'>a free<\/span> audio book,\n&#8220;<b>\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7<\/b>&#8221; (&#8220;Wild Boar&#8221;), story written by\nseven-year-old Anthony Friedl. Unabridged reading for you today by the\nauthor himself.<\/p>\n\n<div style='width:450px; margin: 40px auto; border:solid 1px #444; padding-top:6px'>\n<center>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"42\">\n<param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi.mp3\"\/>\n<embed src=\"\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi.mp3\" width=\"400\" height=\"42\" autostart='false'><\/embed>\n<noembed>Click <a href=\"\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi.mp3\">here<\/a> to listen<\/noembed>\n<\/object>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Anthony Friedl's &#8220;Wild Boar&#8221;<\/span>\n<br\/>Read by the author. <span class='nobr'>Run time 12<\/span> seconds.\n<br\/><span class='subtle'>( <a href=\"\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi.mp3\">Download here<\/a> )<\/span>\n<\/center>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I'm really impressed with the quality of the recording, both in\ntechnical terms, and in Anthony's clear reading voice. More on the\nrecording later in this post.<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1'>The Story<\/p>\n\n<p>First, here's the story (unabridged! :-)), with my attempt at <span class='nobr'>a translation<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n<table style='margin-left:3em; border: solid 1px #333; padding: 2px 1em; background-color:#282828; font-size:120%'><tr>\n<td><b style='font-size:150%'>\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7<\/b>\n<br\/>\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7\u304c\u8eca\u306b\u3076\u3064\u304b\u308a\n<br\/>\u30bf\u30a4\u30e4\u304c\u30d1\u30f3\u30af\n<br\/>\u8eca\u3082\u30d1\u30f3\u30af\n<br\/>\u307b\u304b\u306e\u8eca\u306f\u3073\u3085\u3046\u3093\u3073\u3085\u3046\u3093\u306f\u3057\u308a\n<br\/>\u81ea\u5206\u3060\u3051\u306e\u3053\u3063\u3066\u305f\u3002\n<\/td><td width='30'><\/td><td>\n<b style='font-size:150%'>Wild Boar<\/b>\n<br\/>A wild boar was hit by a car\n<br\/>tire's flat\n<br\/>car is totaled\n<br\/>other cars go zipping by\n<br\/>only I am left behind<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n<p>This morning before school, <span class='nobr'>I asked<\/span> him to draw <span class='nobr'>a picture<\/span> to go along\nwith the story (though he says it's not a &#8220;story&#8221;, it's a &#8220;silly&#8221;), and\nhere's what he came up with <span class='nobr'>a minute<\/span> later:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Anthony-Inoshishi_sm.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"400\"\nalt=\"&amp;#8220;Wild Boar&amp;#8221; illustration by the author -- Copyright 2010 Anthony M. Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- Anthony M. Friedl\"\nid=\"iAnthony_Inoshishi\"\ntitle=\"&amp;#8220;Wild Boar&amp;#8221; illustration by the author -- Copyright 2010 Anthony M. Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- Anthony M. Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>&#8220;Wild Boar&#8221;<\/span>\n<br\/>illustration by the author\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I'm not entirely sure why he wrote this... <span class='nobr'>I think<\/span> it was for some\nschool project. <span class='nobr'>It was what<\/span> happened to be at hand when he decided to\nrecord something, as <span class='nobr'>I describe<\/span> in &#8220;The Recording Session&#8221; below.<\/p>\n\n<p>The genesis of the story, besides the imagination of <span class='nobr'>a seven<\/span> year old,\nis that when Anthony is heading out on his own, Fumie bids him farewell\nwith a &#8220;Watch out for wild boar!&#8221;. On his <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-04-14\/1187\">trip to school<\/a> each\nmorning he has to cross four streets, and navigate sidewalks filled with\npeople and bicycles, so of course we worry &mdash; first graders are not\nknown for their attention span, even when their own safety is at stake. <span class='nobr'>But she knows<\/span> that if she bids him farewell with &#8220;Watch out for cars and\nbicycles!&#8221; that it'll soon become an ignored part of the morning pattern,\nrather than an active reminder, so she figures that making it silly will\nkeep it fresh while still evoking what little attention we can expect\nfrom <span class='nobr'>a kid<\/span> his age. <span class='nobr'>It seems<\/span> to work. Wild boars... who would have thought?\nBrilliant.<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1'>The Recording Session<\/p>\n\n<p>I've got a project cooking for which <span class='nobr'>I need<\/span> to do some high-quality\naudio recordings, something <span class='nobr'>I know<\/span> nothing about. <span class='nobr'>A week or<\/span> so ago (before\n<span class='nobr'>a nasty<\/span> cold stole <span class='nobr'>a week<\/span> of my life) <span class='nobr'>I bought<\/span> a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.zoom.co.jp\/english\/products\/h4n\/index.php\">Zoom H4n Handy\nRecorder<\/a>, which is an amazing little device, much better than the last\ntime <span class='nobr'>I bought<\/span> an audio-recording device (<span class='nobr'>a cassette<\/span> deck 30 years ago, <span class='nobr'>I\nsuppose<\/span>). <span class='nobr'>It's got tons<\/span> of features that <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> no idea how to use, but\nit's simple enough to press &#8220;record&#8221;, &#8220;stop&#8221;, and &#8220;playback&#8221;, so Anthony\nhad fun playing around with it, recording the washing machine, his toys,\ninterviewing Mommy, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p>A few days ago, in a lull of relative health between the worst part of\nmy cold and <span class='nobr'>a subsequent<\/span> bout of hellatious insomnia, Anthony and <span class='nobr'>I were<\/span>\nplaying with it, and he decided he wanted to read something with it. So, <span class='nobr'>I set it<\/span> in <span class='nobr'>a bowl<\/span> on the dining-room table that allowed the built-in\nmicrophones to point up at him, and he grabbed something and read it.\nThat's the recording above.<\/p>\n\n<p>(He then read another somewhat longer story he wrote, &#8220;cockroach underwear&#8221;,\nwhich <span class='nobr'>I will<\/span> spare you.)<\/p>\n\n<p>As I said, <span class='nobr'>I'm really<\/span> impressed with the quality of the recording. (If\nyou're not, grab whatever audio-recording device you have lying around, and\nrecord <span class='nobr'>a kid<\/span> at the dining-room table, and see what kind of clarity\n<i>you<\/i> get.) It's the Zoom unit... it's just amazing. I've got a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.mxlmics.com\/products\/900_series\/990\/990.html\">studio\nmicrophone<\/a> on order to use with it, but even the built-in microphones\nare pretty good. Then there's Anthony's reading voice... so clear! <span class='nobr'>I\ncouldn't<\/span> read that clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For something a little bit different, here's a free audio book, \"<b>\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7<\/b>\" (\"Wild Boar\"), story written by seven-year-old Anthony Friedl. Unabridged reading for you today by the author himself.<\/p> <p>I'm really impressed with the quality of the recording, both in technical terms, and in Anthony's clear reading voice. More on the recording later in this post.<\/p> <p class='h1'>The Story<\/p> <p>First, here's the story (unabridged! :-)), with my attempt at a translation:<\/p> <b style='font-size:150%'>\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7<\/b> \u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7\u304c\u8eca\u306b\u3076\u3064\u304b\u308a \u30bf\u30a4\u30e4\u304c\u30d1\u30f3\u30af \u8eca\u3082\u30d1\u30f3\u30af \u307b\u304b\u306e\u8eca\u306f\u3073\u3085\u3046\u3093\u3073\u3085\u3046\u3093\u306f\u3057\u308a \u81ea\u5206\u3060\u3051\u306e\u3053\u3063\u3066\u305f\u3002 <b style='font-size:150%'>Wild Boar<\/b> A wild boar was hit by a car tire's flat car is totaled other cars go zipping by only [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}