{"id":5915,"date":"2009-05-12T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2009-05-12T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:33:24","slug":"jet-alum-john-gauntner-is-leading-world-sake-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/12\/jet-alum-john-gauntner-is-leading-world-sake-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum John Gauntner is leading world sake expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/assets\/images\/john-photo-nov-2007-A-W300-TN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"237\" \/>Thanks to <strong>JET Liason Noriko Furuhata<\/strong> and JET alum <strong>Eric Campbell<\/strong>, both of whom work at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, for sharing the link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090404a1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japan Times<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> about JET alum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>John Gauntner<\/strong><\/a> who has established himself as the leading non-Japanese <em>sake<\/em> expert in the world.\u00a0 And this on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/07\/jetaa-ny-sake-tasting-at-jet-alum-chris-johnsons-bao-noodles-restaurant\/\" target=\"_self\">recent JETAA NY <em>sake<\/em><\/a> tasting event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baonoodles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bao Noodles<\/strong><\/a>, a restaurant owned by JET alum and <em>sake<\/em> sommelier <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/23\/two-upcoming-events-with-sake-sommelier-chris-johnson-oita-ken-1992-95\/\" target=\"_self\">Chris Johnson<\/a> (Oita-ken, 1992-95)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff.\u00a0 Then again, is anyone really that surprised that JET alums would know <em>sake<\/em> so well? :-)<\/p>\n<p>For more info, here are links to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <em>Japan Times<\/em> article: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090404a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090404a1.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/<\/a> (filled with lots of good stuff)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The five books he&#8217;s written on <em>sake<\/em>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/html\/books.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/html\/books.html<\/a> (Yet another published JET alum author!)<\/li>\n<li>His <em>Nihonshu<\/em> columns that he wrote for the <em>Japan Times<\/em> for 8 years:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/html\/jt-archives.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/html\/jt-archives.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps going forward it&#8217;s time for JetWit to start keeping its eyes peeled for JET alum <em>shouju<\/em> sommeliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JET Liason Noriko Furuhata and JET alum Eric Campbell, both of whom work at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, for sharing the link to this Japan Times article about JET alum John Gauntner who has established himself as the leading non-Japanese sake expert in the world.\u00a0 And this on the [&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":[26,70,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-food-drink","category-interviewprofile","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","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=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}