{"id":4637,"date":"2019-03-07T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2019-03-07T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T02:17:50","slug":"my-interview-on-the-blunt-report-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"My Interview on the Blunt Report Podcast: Korean Desires, Happiness, and a Frog in a Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4638\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Blunt-Report-Colin-Marshall.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few months ago, Konner Blunt came to Korea to record a few episodes of his interview podcast <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebluntreport.com\/\">The\u00a0Blunt\u00a0Report<\/a><\/em>, which &#8220;exists today to create interest and intrigue in the world around us.&#8221; You might remember me doing something similar with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?page_id=2914\">Notebook\u00a0on\u00a0Cities\u00a0and\u00a0Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?page_id=2914\">&#8216;s Korea Tour<\/a>, and now that I live in Korea myself, I seem to have gone from interviewer to interviewee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can hear &#8220;Desires, Happiness, and a Frog in a Well,&#8221; my 80-minute conversation with Konner about life in Korea, learning the Korean language, the task of observing and interpreting Korean society and culture, what one learns about one&#8217;s homeland when living abroad rather than just traveling, and much else besides at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebluntreport.com\/\">The\u00a0Blunt\u00a0Report<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebluntreport.com\/\">&#8216;s web site<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/colin-marshall-korean-desires-happiness-and-a-frog-in-a-well\/id1396353716?i=1000431215422&amp;mt=2\">on iTunes<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Om3D-e7o3g\">on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Konner Blunt came to Korea to record a few episodes of his interview podcast The\u00a0Blunt\u00a0Report, which &#8220;exists today to create interest and intrigue in the world around us.&#8221; You might remember me doing something similar with Notebook\u00a0on\u00a0Cities\u00a0and\u00a0Culture&#8216;s Korea Tour, and now that I live in Korea myself, I seem to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}