{"id":21206,"date":"2011-08-21T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21206"},"modified":"2011-08-21T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:38:18","slug":"jet-alum-james-kennedy-reviews-super-mario-for-wsj-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/21\/jet-alum-james-kennedy-reviews-super-mario-for-wsj-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum James Kennedy reviews &#8220;Super Mario&#8221; for WSJ Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SuperMario_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21207\" title=\"SuperMario_\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SuperMario_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SuperMario_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SuperMario_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>James Kennedy (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong>, author of the acclaimed young adult novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Order-Odd-Fish-James-Kennedy\/dp\/038573543X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1217474145&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Order of Odd-Fish<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, just did a <a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/paNu5f\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> book review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supermariobook.com\/\"><em><strong>SUPER MARIO<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <strong>Jeff Ryan&#8217;s<\/strong> history of <strong>Nintendo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, James apparently also had the chance to correct some bad Japanese in his book. (Who says the JET program doesn&#8217;t teach marketable skills?)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Errors crop up. Speculating on the name of Mario&#8217;s evil twin, Wario, Mr. Ryan claims that &#8220;in Japanese, wariu means bad.&#8221; Actually, the Japanese is warui.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book review was in Friday&#8217;s print WSJ, and here it is online: <a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/paNu5f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/paNu5f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Kennedy (Nara-ken, 2004-06), author of the acclaimed young adult novel The Order of Odd-Fish, just did a Wall Street Journal book review of SUPER MARIO, Jeff Ryan&#8217;s history of Nintendo. In the article, James apparently also had the chance to correct some bad Japanese in his book. (Who says the JET program doesn&#8217;t teach [&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":[4,40,318,304,282,58,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-reviews","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5w2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206","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=21206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21209,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}