{"id":13453,"date":"2020-10-15T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13453"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:06:31","slug":"football-martial-arts-and-lionel-richie-nostalgia-interview-with-leslie-de-vries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/10\/15\/football-martial-arts-and-lionel-richie-nostalgia-interview-with-leslie-de-vries\/","title":{"rendered":"Football, martial arts and Lionel Richie: Nostalgia interview with Leslie De Vries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7705352-leslie-de-vries\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, interviews Leslie De Vries, who is Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Leslie explains why he wanted to be a \u2018normal kid\u2019 growing up, and how he was a bit of a dreamer in school. He later became involved in playing music and we discover how he became interested in East Asia through martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie also talks about his research and teaching interests, about he got to shake hands with Lionel Richie, why playing in a band wasn&#8217;t the right path for him, why one lifetime doesn&#8217;t seem enough, living in East Asia and how it drives his teaching, his dream for the future and why he prefers to look forward rather than back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the Department of Religious Studies, interviews Leslie De Vries, who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/10\/15\/football-martial-arts-and-lionel-richie-nostalgia-interview-with-leslie-de-vries\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":13454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[37441,237590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}