{"id":29819,"date":"2013-04-16T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=29819"},"modified":"2013-04-17T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:46:04","slug":"lets-talk-japan-podcast-episode-8-the-art-of-japanese-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/16\/lets-talk-japan-podcast-episode-8-the-art-of-japanese-bonsai\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk Japan Podcast:  Episode 8, The Art of Japanese Bonsai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letstalkjapan.com\">Let\u2019s Talk Japan<\/a> is a twice monthly, interview-format podcast covering a wide range of Japan-related topics.\u00a0 Host Nick Harling lived in Japan from 2001 until 2005, including two great years as a JET Program participant in Mie-Ken.\u00a0 He practices law in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife who patiently listens to him talk about Japan\u2026a lot.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Nick speaks with Aaron Packard, assistant curator of the National Bonsai and Pinjing Museum, which is located within the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. \u00a0Together they discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The history of bonsai<\/li>\n<li>How Aaron became interested in this art form and was able to make it a full-time career<\/li>\n<li>The contents of the National Arboretum&#8217;s Bonsai and Penjing collection<\/li>\n<li>The rewards and pressure that can come from working with bonsai<\/li>\n<li>Advice for anyone interested in starting a bonsai collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letstalkjapan.com\/008-the-art-of-japanese-bonsai\/\">HERE <\/a>to listen.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not already done so, be sure to &#8220;like&#8221; the podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Lets-Talk-Japan-Podcast\/320261944743669\">Facebook<\/a>, and follow the podcast on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/letstalkjapan\">@letstalkjapan<\/a>. \u00a0Additionally, please consider leaving a positive rating and\/or review in <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/lets-talk-japan-podcast\/id590575859?affId=1111941&amp;mt=2\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Let\u2019s Talk Japan is a twice monthly, interview-format podcast covering a wide range of Japan-related topics.\u00a0 Host Nick Harling lived in Japan from 2001 until 2005, including two great years as a JET Program participant in Mie-Ken.\u00a0 He practices law in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife who patiently listens to him talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7KX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29819"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29837,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819\/revisions\/29837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}