{"id":13187,"date":"2010-08-25T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13187"},"modified":"2010-08-25T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:20:15","slug":"notable-jet-alums-monkey-majik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/25\/notable-jet-alums-monkey-majik\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable JET Alums:  Maynard Plant and Monkey Majik"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13189\" style=\"width: 332px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/monkey_majik1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13189\" title=\"monkey_majik1\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/monkey_majik1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/monkey_majik1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/monkey_majik1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Monkey Majik with Deputy Minister Len Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Maynard Plant (Aomori-ken, 1997-2000)<\/strong> is the founder of the well-known Japan-based band <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeymajik.com\">Monkey Majik<\/a> <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeymajik.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.monkeymajik.com<\/a>), which consists of two Canadian members (Maynard and his brother <strong>Blaise<\/strong>) and two Japanese members-<strong>tax<\/strong> and <strong>DICK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information you can check out their:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeymajik.com\">www.monkeymajik.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wikipedia entry<\/strong> (where you&#8217;ll learn about the origins of the band as well as how Maynard is fluent in Aomori-<em>ben<\/em>):\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monkey_Majik\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monkey_Majik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Embassy of Japan in Canada press release:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp\/canada_e\/Archives\/Cultural_events\/2008\/monkeymajik_2008.html\">&#8220;Goodwill Ambassadors, Monkey Majik, arrive in Ottawa to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Japan-Canada Diplomatic Relations&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is their song <em>Change <\/em>with the <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.domo.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domo.com\/yoshidabrothers\/\">Yoshida Brothers<\/a> (a video all JET alums will appreciate):<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"508\" height=\"306\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5IWVq7zSBlA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you know of any <strong>notable JET alums<\/strong>?\u00a0 Let us know at <strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maynard Plant (Aomori-ken, 1997-2000) is the founder of the well-known Japan-based band Monkey Majik (www.monkeymajik.com), which consists of two Canadian members (Maynard and his brother Blaise) and two Japanese members-tax and DICK. For more information you can check out their: Website: www.monkeymajik.com Wikipedia entry (where you&#8217;ll learn about the origins of the band as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,304,1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-notable-jet-alums","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3qH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}