{"id":137805,"date":"2016-09-22T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=137805"},"modified":"2019-01-29T03:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:32:59","slug":"interview-with-kenneth-kwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=137805","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Kenneth Kwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeoutcomedy.com\/site\/comedians\/kenneth-kwan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenneth-Kwan.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-137806\" alt=\"Kenneth Kwan\" width=\"195\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenneth-Kwan.jpg 195w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenneth-Kwan-85x128.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Another person whom I have known for an age, Kenneth has been on the Hong Kong guitar scene for as long as I can remember. He is professor of guitar at Guangzhou Conservatoire and also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeoutcomedy.com\/site\/comedians\/kenneth-kwan\/\">stand up comedian<\/a> (are they the same?).<br \/>\nHe is also an avid traveller in China and seems to know much of what goes on there.<br \/>\nThis is an interview I held with him in one of the many coffee shops we frequent in Hong Kong, where he talks about China, teaching and life&#8230;<br \/>\nFind out more on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cmkkwan\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sgIKXlzai2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what he has to say about himself:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"comedians-single-content\">\n<dl>\n<dd>Kenneth Kwan is considered a comic\u2019s comic\u2019s comic, since nobody but comics may understand his jokes, and that\u2019s when they\u2019re drunk. He\u2019s a musician and full-time womanizer, that is, he tries to help women become more woman by helping with chores behind the backs of their spouses, so that a woman can one day be womanizest (they don\u2019t call him a comic\u2019s comic\u2019s comic for nothing).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s what famous comedians have to say about Kenneth:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> Seinfeld: \u201cKenneth who?\u201d <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em> <strong>Johnny Carson through a medium: \u201cFor someone who has absolutely no talents, Kenneth sure tries hard\u2026even though nobody laughs, the world is better because of this!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another person whom I have known for an age, Kenneth has been on the Hong Kong guitar scene for as long as I can remember. He is professor of guitar at Guangzhou Conservatoire and also a stand up comedian (are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=137805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,477,559,870],"tags":[974,896,973,991,992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193986,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137805\/revisions\/193986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}