{"id":231,"date":"2006-11-21T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:51","slug":"thimphu-writers-meet-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/231","title":{"rendered":"Thimphu Writers Meet for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan has only had TV and internet since 1999, but they&#8217;ve taken to technology like stray dogs to a meat shop.  One prime example is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuzuzangpo.com\">kuzuzangpo.com<\/a>, a web forum for writers in or about Bhutan.  I recently found out that it&#8217;s run by a young Bhutanese man studying in Bangkok, and has members throughout Bhutan and possibly the world.<\/p>\n<p>I came to know about this because I&#8217;ve been organising a writing group in Thimphu.  I find it difficult to get inspired to write when the only feedback I get or give is by email, but kuzuzangpo.com is the only alternative locally.  I put the idea out there and got positive feedback, so last night we met at my favourite local restaurant.  Only four of us turned up, but one of them drove all the way from Paro for the event.  He&#8217;d never met one of the others, though they knew each other&#8217;s work.  The last person was an editor at one of the new newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them wrote a variety of things, but as Bhutanese tend to only read love poetry, they don&#8217;t submit much of their work to kuzuzangpo.com and were excited to have another, more open, forum for sharing their work.  And so it became more a group for sharing than discussing, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan has only had TV and internet since 1999, but they&#8217;ve taken to technology like stray dogs to a meat shop. One prime example is kuzuzangpo.com, a web forum for writers in or about Bhutan. I recently found out that it&#8217;s run by a young Bhutanese man studying in Bangkok, and has members throughout Bhutan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/231\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thimphu Writers Meet for first time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}