{"id":13563,"date":"2010-09-13T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2010-09-13T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T11:30:39","slug":"commentary-the-cove-is-a-total-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/13\/commentary-the-cove-is-a-total-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary:  &#8220;The Cove is a Total Failure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/ryancecilsmith.com\/blog\/the-cove-is-a-total-failure\">blog post<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/ryancecilsmith.com\/blog\/\"><strong>Ryan Cecil Smith (Hyogo-ken, Nishinomiya-shi, 2010)<\/strong><\/a> about his attempts to show the controversial documentary film <strong><em>The Cove<\/em><\/strong> to students in his town of various age ranges in an effort to foster discussion and reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the post:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ryancecilsmith.com\/blog\/the-cove-is-a-total-failure\">http:\/\/ryancecilsmith.com\/blog\/the-cove-is-a-total-failure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from Ryan&#8217;s blog post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think that there should be some reckoning by the makers of The Cove  for how poorly the movie has been received in Japan. I\u2019m really  disappointed that the movie is targeted so far from a Japanese audience,  even though the point of the movie is ostensibly to change a Japanese  practice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ryan is very interested in hearing reactions and comments from the JET and JET alumni communities as well as from any other readers.\u00a0 Please feel free to comment below.<\/p>\n<p>You can find additional commentary about <em>The Cove<\/em> on JetWit <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/the-cove-documentary-on-dolphin-slaughter-in-japan\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/19\/wit-life-103-the-cove\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a blog post from Ryan Cecil Smith (Hyogo-ken, Nishinomiya-shi, 2010) about his attempts to show the controversial documentary film The Cove to students in his town of various age ranges in an effort to foster discussion and reaction. Here&#8217;s the post:\u00a0 http:\/\/ryancecilsmith.com\/blog\/the-cove-is-a-total-failure Here&#8217;s a quote from Ryan&#8217;s blog post: &#8220;I think that there should [&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":[7,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-japan-trends","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3wL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563","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=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}