{"id":107,"date":"2014-04-09T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:24:45","slug":"an-investment-in-knowledge-always-pays-the-best-interest-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/an-investment-in-knowledge-always-pays-the-best-interest-benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An Investment in Knowledge Always Pays the Best Interest&#8221; ~ Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ben-Franklin-Quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-110 aligncenter\" alt=\"Ben Franklin Quote\" src=\"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ben-Franklin-Quote-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more Mr. Franklin!\u00a0 Investing in the knowledge of our interpreters is important to ASL Interpreter Referral Service.\u00a0 That is one of the reasons why we&#8217;ve held free workshops for our contracted interpreters over the last month.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, March 22, over 30 interpreters gathered for a medical workshop presented by <strong>Rebecca Rainone<\/strong>.\u00a0 The participants learned how to recognize and select appropriate vocabulary and classifiers to describe medical conditions\/procedures and\/or body parts\/organs.\u00a0 The recurring theme of the evaluation comments was &#8220;Great workshop!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 5, <strong>Noah Buchholz<\/strong> presented the religion workshop, &#8220;Unlocking the Next Level: A Guide to Interpreting Christian Theological Jargon&#8221;.\u00a0 He discussed how to interpret obscure yet important theological terms as well as worship songs.\u00a0 One participant stated, &#8220;&#8230; <em>this workshop has motivated me to focus on religious interpreting more.\u00a0 It helped make a very confusing\/untouchable area seem more attainable<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A big thank you to Rebecca and Noah for sharing their knowledge with all of us!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more Mr. Franklin!\u00a0 Investing in the knowledge of our interpreters is important to ASL Interpreter Referral Service.\u00a0 That is one of the reasons why we&#8217;ve held free workshops for our contracted interpreters over the last month. On Saturday, March 22, over 30 interpreters gathered for a medical workshop presented by Rebecca Rainone.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aslirs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}