{"id":1772,"date":"2017-05-22T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2020-03-25T04:53:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:53:46","slug":"june-16th-meeting-tak-shimazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"JUNE 16th MEETING &#8211; TAK SHIMAZU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><strong>JUNE 16th MEETING &#8211; TAK SHIMAZU<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">SoCal bonsai artist and teacher, Tak Shimazu will be our June demonstrator. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Tak immigrated in 1968 to Cypress in Orange County before moving to Riverside two years later. He supported his family for 40 years with a business, Tak\u2019s Gardening Service, specializing in Asian-style designs before branching into bonsai as a hobby with his brother as a tutor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tak is considered a master working with Pine and Juniper, and has taught and demonstrated throughout Southern California. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tak will be working on an Itoigawa Juniper at the demo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><strong>SEE YOU THERE!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Photo via The Press Enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 16th MEETING &#8211; TAK SHIMAZU SoCal bonsai artist and teacher, Tak Shimazu will be our June demonstrator. Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Tak immigrated in 1968 to Cypress in Orange County before moving to Riverside two years later. He supported his family for 40 years with a business, Tak\u2019s Gardening Service, specializing in Asian-style designs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_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\/1772"}],"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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daiichibonsaikai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}