{"id":1600,"date":"2016-09-11T05:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T05:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2020-03-25T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:54:07","slug":"1600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 16th MEETING  |  KATHY BENSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Friday, September 16th<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For nearly 40 years, Kathy Benson has been widely known throughout Southern California\u2019s bonsai community, as an instructor and demonstrator. She is well liked, and held in high esteem by her students and the bonsai community.<br \/>\nKathy studied with several world famous bonsai masters such as Dick Wydman,<br \/>\nJohn Naka, and Jim Barrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Kathy is also a member of the California Bonsai Society, Nan Pu Kai, Descansco Bonsai Society, the Golden State Bonsai Federation, and several other local bonsai clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In the past, Kathy has won best of show for her very powerful, well defined and beautifully proportioned bonsai trees at the Descansco Bonsai Society exhibit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Kathy\u2019s beautiful trees have been artistically and formally displayed at many bonsai shows in Southern California including the prestigious Nan Pu Kai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Be sure to attend the next meeting where Kathy will be working on a Prostrata Juniper from Harry Hirao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Image courtesy of Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyu Kai<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 16th For nearly 40 years, Kathy Benson has been widely known throughout Southern California\u2019s bonsai community, as an instructor and demonstrator. She is well liked, and held in high esteem by her students and the bonsai community. Kathy studied with several world famous bonsai masters such as Dick Wydman, John Naka, and Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}