{"id":1948,"date":"2008-12-03T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2008-12-04T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:56:08","slug":"update-roland-kelts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/update-roland-kelts\/","title":{"rendered":"Update:  Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/991.com\/newGallery\/The-Who-Call-Me-Lightning-430190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" \/>After chaperoning <strong>Pete Townsend<\/strong> and <strong>The Who<\/strong> around Japan for a couple weeks, having a press conference with <strong>Hayao Miyazaki<\/strong> and interviewing both <strong>Murakamis<\/strong> (<strong>Haruki<\/strong> and <strong>Ryu<\/strong>), <a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Roland Kelts<\/strong><\/a> (Osaka, 1998-99) pauses to reflect on the interactions as well as some new perspectives on &#8220;pop culture&#8221; in his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20081128TDY13004.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS column in the Daily Yomiuri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update<\/span><strong>: <\/strong>I just learned from Roland that the radio discussion listed below will actually not air this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can also hear Roland on <strong>NPR&#8217;s &#8220;The World&#8221;<\/strong> this Thursday (i.e., tomorrow) for a program about the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After chaperoning Pete Townsend and The Who around Japan for a couple weeks, having a press conference with Hayao Miyazaki and interviewing both Murakamis (Haruki and Ryu), Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99) pauses to reflect on the interactions as well as some new perspectives on &#8220;pop culture&#8221; in his latest SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS column in [&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":[4,7,40,30,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-books","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}