{"id":11943,"date":"2018-03-29T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2018-03-29T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:05:18","slug":"podwatch-j-talk-looks-j2-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/29\/podwatch-j-talk-looks-j2-league\/","title":{"rendered":"PODWATCH: J-Talk looks at the J2 League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PODWATCH highlights the many wonderful podcasts being produced by Asian football fans across the continent. If you are interested in adding your show to PODWATCH, contact us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:asia@football-tribe.com\">asia@football-tribe.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With the J1 League off for the recent international break, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jtalkpod\">J-Talk Podcast<\/a> host Ben Maxwell turned the show over to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j2kantobites\">Jon Steele<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sushi_football\">Stuart Smith\u00a0<\/a>for the first J2 Special of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With six weeks having elapsed in the J.League&#8217;s second division, the pair examine the surprises and disappointments thus far, take a closer look at last year&#8217;s relegated J1 sides in Ventforet Kofu, Albirex Niigata, Omiya Ardija, and consider how long perennial strugglers Mito Hollyhock and Renofa Yamaguchi can remain the playoff zone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/w3bic-8e0d6d?from=site&amp;vjs=1&amp;skin=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jtalkpod.podbean.com\/\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to the J-Talk podcast for more great discussion on Japanese football every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PODWATCH highlights the many wonderful podcasts being produced by Asian football fans across the continent. If you are interested in adding your show to PODWATCH, contact us at\u00a0asia@football-tribe.com. With the J1 League off for the recent international break, J-Talk Podcast host Ben Maxwell turned the show over to Jon Steele and Stuart Smith\u00a0for the first J2 Special of the season. With six weeks having elapsed in the J.League&#8217;s second division, the pair examine the surprises and disappointments thus far, take a closer look at last year&#8217;s relegated J1 sides in Ventforet Kofu, Albirex Niigata, Omiya Ardija, and consider how long perennial strugglers Mito Hollyhock and Renofa Yamaguchi can remain the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/29\/podwatch-j-talk-looks-j2-league\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;PODWATCH: J-Talk looks at the J2 League&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[127,1359,391,1265],"class_list":["post-11943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-j-league","tag-j-talk-podcast","tag-j2-league","tag-podwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}