{"id":14843,"date":"2010-11-16T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2010-11-16T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T02:47:13","slug":"culture-spreaders-bruce-rutledge-editor-ibuki-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/16\/culture-spreaders-bruce-rutledge-editor-ibuki-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Spreaders:  Bruce Rutledge, Editor &#8211; Ibuki Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibukimagazine.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14848\" title=\"IbukiKawaii\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IbukiKawaii.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Culture Spreaders<\/em><\/strong><em> is a new feature intended to shine a spotlight on JET alums involved in spreading and sharing Japanese culture in their home countries.\u00a0 If you know of a good JET alum for a future post, just e-mail <strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong> tell us why you think that alum is a <strong>Culture Spreader<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Self-nominations welcome too.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?s=bruce+rutledge\">Bruce Rutledge<\/a> (MEF Program Chiba-ken, 1985-87)<\/strong> is the Editor-in-Chief of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibukimagazine.com\"><em><strong>Ibuki<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the &#8220;<strong>Japanese Inspired Food and Lifestyle Magazine<\/strong>&#8221; for the Seattle\/Bellevue\/Portland area.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibukimagazine.com\"><strong>www.ibukimagazine.com<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I was in Seattle this past weekend and (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwjetaa.org\/\">JETAA Pacific Northwest<\/a> President <strong>Sandra Sakai<\/strong>) was able to pick up a copy of the <strong>&#8220;I Love Kawaii&#8221;<\/strong> issue, which featured &#8220;<strong>6%Dokidoki Brings Happy Anarchy<\/strong>,&#8221; &#8220;Your Slice of Japan on the Eastside,&#8221; a recipe for green tea sweets, a travel article titled &#8220;Kanpai in Tokyo&#8221; and a sake article titled &#8220;Food pairing hints.&#8221;\u00a0 The magazine also includes an extensive Japan-related business directory for the area, including restaurants, galleries, grocery stores, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work with <em>Ibuki<\/em>, Bruce is also the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/25\/bruce-rutledge-mef-and-chin-music-press\/\"><strong>Chin Music Press<\/strong><\/a>, which has put out a number of Japan-related books and takes pride in book design.<\/p>\n<p>For all his work with <em>Ibuki<\/em> and Chin Music Press, Bruce is undoubtedly a major JET alum &#8220;Culture Spreader.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Spreaders is a new feature intended to shine a spotlight on JET alums involved in spreading and sharing Japanese culture in their home countries.\u00a0 If you know of a good JET alum for a future post, just e-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com tell us why you think that alum is a Culture Spreader.\u00a0 (Self-nominations welcome [&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":[40,305,304,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cultural-outreach","category-notable-jet-alums","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843","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=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}