{"id":914,"date":"2013-03-29T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=914"},"modified":"2013-03-29T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:49:53","slug":"whats-the-japanese-for-badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Japanese for Badass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be the last person on earth to discover the Yoshida Brothers, but Good God what they can do with only 3 strings apiece. They play the traditional Japanese shamisen, but they do things with it, and in the midst of it, way beyond what you&#8217;ve heard in the soundtrack to the Kurosawa films you love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_CzD0GBD-4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And for something a little more stripped down:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MgN_xIHqLUA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Here is their tour de force, a cover of Radiohead&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=sWQvCYydpmQ&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=https%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Falbum%252Fprism%252Fid312349443%253Fuo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30\">National Anthem<\/a> (iTunes link). I can&#8217;t get enough of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"x-audio player\" data-x-element-mejs><audio class=\"x-mejs x-wp-audio-shortcode advanced-controls\" id=\"audio-914-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yoshida-bros-anthem.mp3?_=1\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be the last person on earth to discover the Yoshida Brothers, but Good God what they can do with only 3 strings apiece. They play the traditional Japanese shamisen, but they do things with it, and in the midst of it, way beyond what you&#8217;ve heard in the soundtrack to the Kurosawa films you love. And for something &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}