{"id":78,"date":"2012-07-10T03:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2016-04-09T03:19:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T03:19:59","slug":"last-day-in-langmusi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/10\/last-day-in-langmusi\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day in Langmusi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Working almost around the clock for days, we (my translator and I) finally finished translating all the footage that needs translation. I\u2019m really lucky Qijia is so diligent and with great patience. Going through the footage is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes depressing. There are those unexpected moments that really touched my heart and there are interview answers that are so off I questioned my whole idea of doing the project. But in the end, I\u2019m pleased, I\u2019m really pleased. What I have recorded, and hopefully with the blessing from Bhudda and lamas, shall arrive with me safely in Beijing, is at the very least a truthful portrait of the herders\u2019 live on the pasture, their fear, wishes, and the humorous side of them. Sangji\u2019s family is so unique in so many ways I have to believe that having them there is my fate working for me. There will not be this project without their help, their whole family. And I\u2019ve become such good friends with the daughter, Danku, she felt like my little sister. On my last day trip to the pastureland, we laughed so hard taking photos together \u2014 which they love doing \u2014 it really felt wonderful. Now my only fear, well, two fears, are that I won\u2019t be able to put the story together as nicely as I imagined, and I won\u2019t be able to start the even harder project of bringing in some help to curb the area\u2019s desert problem. But, I will try my best.<\/p>\n<p>Have to sleep now, very early morning bus tomorrow and a whole day of travel to take me home to Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working almost around the clock for days, we (my translator and I) finally finished translating all the footage that needs translation. I\u2019m really lucky Qijia is so diligent and with great patience. Going through the footage is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes depressing. There are those unexpected moments that really touched my heart and there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterdropfilms.com\/desertblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}