{"id":15990,"date":"2011-01-07T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2011-01-07T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T19:49:26","slug":"jet-alum-writes-shares-perspectives-of-japan-in-metropolis-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/07\/jet-alum-writes-shares-perspectives-of-japan-in-metropolis-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum shares perspectives of Japan in Metropolis magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Mark-Flanigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15991\" title=\"Mark-Flanigan\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Mark-Flanigan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>JET alum Mark Flanigan (Nagasaki 2000-04) wrote to JetWit to share his writing &#8220;debut&#8221; in Tokyo, featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/metropolis.co.jp\/features\/the-last-word\/found-and-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolis Magazine<\/a>. Following his stint in Nagasaki, Mark returned to Japan as a Rotary International World Peace Fellow at International Christian University (ICU) \/ \u56fd\u969b\u57fa\u7763\u6559\u5927\u5b66 in Tokyo. He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am very happy and also humbled to have been selected to write for such a great magazine. In my article, I talk about some of the different impressions I have found here, as a JET and now as a Peace Fellow, and compare\/contrast my feelings of my two different times spent living in Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metropolis.co.jp\/features\/the-last-word\/found-and-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to read the article, &#8220;Found and Lost: Reflections on my two Japans.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JET alum Mark Flanigan (Nagasaki 2000-04) wrote to JetWit to share his writing &#8220;debut&#8221; in Tokyo, featured in Metropolis Magazine. Following his stint in Nagasaki, Mark returned to Japan as a Rotary International World Peace Fellow at International Christian University (ICU) \/ \u56fd\u969b\u57fa\u7763\u6559\u5927\u5b66 in Tokyo. He says: I am very happy and also humbled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-49U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15994,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}