{"id":15652,"date":"2010-12-19T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15652"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:40:45","slug":"blind-jet-alum-helps-japan-braile-library-nitten-with-unique-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/19\/blind-jet-alum-helps-japan-braile-library-nitten-with-unique-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind JET alum helps Japan Braile Library (&#8220;Nitten&#8221;) with unique initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2010\/12\/19\/5203423.htm\">article<\/a> from <em>Japan Times-McClatchy News Information Services<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2010\/12\/19\/5203423.htm\">the Nitten braile library in Takadanobaba<\/a> in Tokyo includes several paragraphs on a British JET alum named <strong>David Hathaway (Nagano-ken)<\/strong> who is blind and who is running the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) scholarship program &#8212; which is held in Malaysia, where he teaches basic and advanced computer skills to blind Asian leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the article:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2010\/12\/19\/5203423.htm\">http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2010\/12\/19\/5203423.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks to Megan Miller-Yoo for alerting us to the article.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article from Japan Times-McClatchy News Information Services about the Nitten braile library in Takadanobaba in Tokyo includes several paragraphs on a British JET alum named David Hathaway (Nagano-ken) who is blind and who is running the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) scholarship program &#8212; which is held in Malaysia, where he teaches basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable-jet-alums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-44s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15654,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}