{"id":59894,"date":"2016-01-14T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=59894"},"modified":"2015-12-28T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:17:26","slug":"toshiki-okada-god-bless-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=59894","title":{"rendered":"Toshiki Okada &#8220;God Bless Baseball&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 14, 8 PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baseball.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[59894]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baseball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sport of baseball, an iconic American symbol, takes center stage in this newest work by visionary Japanese playwright\/director Toshiki Okada (chelfitsch theater company). Positioning the U.S. as the parent and Japan and Korea (where baseball is now deeply rooted in popular culture) as brothers, Okada depicts with humor and cynicism, the na\u00efve adoration that the brothers have for their parent and the parent\u2019s influence on their lives. God Bless Baseball features a cast of Japanese and Korean actors and a stage set created by acclaimed visual artist Tadasu Takamine. Performed in Japanese and Korean with English titles.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/toshiki-okada-god-bless-baseball\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 14, 8 PM Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59896,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59894\/revisions\/59896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}