{"id":2478,"date":"2026-05-12T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:14:11","slug":"e495-with-leslie-shimotakahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/e495-with-leslie-shimotakahara\/","title":{"rendered":"E495 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey folks! Back to talk with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leslieshimotakahara.com\/\">Leslie Shimotakahara<\/a><\/strong> once again! This will be her fourth appearance on the show (her first was way back on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/get-lit-24-with-leslie-shimotakahara\/\">E24<\/a><\/strong>), and I&#8217;m thrilled to have her as one of my final guests. We talk about her latest, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cormorantbooks.com\/Books\/T\/The-Breakwater2\">The Breakwater<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E495 with Leslie Shimotakahara May 14 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2317106564&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Back to talk with Leslie Shimotakahara once again! This will be her fourth appearance on the show (her first was way back on E24), and I&#8217;m thrilled to have her as one of my final guests. We talk about her latest, The Breakwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,23,1008,31,20,24,16,83,13,170,1454],"class_list":{"0":"post-2478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-cfmu","9":"tag-cormorant-books","10":"tag-fiction","11":"tag-get-lit","12":"tag-hamilton","13":"tag-jamie-tennant","14":"tag-leslie-shimotakahara","15":"tag-literature","16":"tag-mcmaster-university","17":"tag-the-breakwater","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}