{"id":17175,"date":"2011-03-01T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:22:14","slug":"jet-alum-sake-expert-spotlighted-in-japan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/01\/jet-alum-sake-expert-spotlighted-in-japan-times\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum sake expert spotlighted in Japan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/JohnGauntner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7972\" title=\"JohnGauntner\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/JohnGauntner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/member\/member.html?mode=getarticle&amp;file=nn20110301f1.html\">Japan Times<\/a><\/strong> makes mention of JET alum and leading sake expert <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/12\/jet-alum-john-gauntner-is-leading-world-sake-expert\/\">John Gauntner<\/a><\/strong> (a.k.a. The Sake Guy), author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.benchmarkemail.com\/Sake-World--Inc--\">Sake World E-Newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0In the article, which highlights sake&#8217;s growing popularity around the world, Gauntner recalls his long journey with the rice-based beverage \u2014 from love at first sip to his current status as the first and only non-Japanese certified &#8220;sake expert assessor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/12\/jet-alum-john-gauntner-is-leading-world-sake-expert\/\">Check out the article, &#8220;Foreign sake experts win over hearts, palates&#8221;.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gauntner is a noted lecturer on sake who travels the world speaking on the topic.\u00a0He has published a score of books on sake and spoke at Japan Society last May. To learn more about him and sake, visit his website\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sake-world.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Japan Times makes mention of JET alum and leading sake expert John Gauntner (a.k.a. The Sake Guy), author of the Sake World E-Newsletter.\u00a0In the article, which highlights sake&#8217;s growing popularity around the world, Gauntner recalls his long journey with the rice-based beverage \u2014 from love at first sip to his current status as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[4,70],"tags":[137,138,142],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-food-drink","tag-john-gauntner","tag-sake","tag-the-sake-guy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4t1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17177,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions\/17177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}