{"id":17986,"date":"2011-03-17T01:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T05:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2011-03-17T01:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T05:19:24","slug":"earthquake-japan-a-land-of-fragile-beauty-or-take-a-break-from-the-news-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/17\/earthquake-japan-a-land-of-fragile-beauty-or-take-a-break-from-the-news-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake: Japan &#8211; A Land of Fragile Beauty, or Take a Break from the News Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jp.linkedin.com\/in\/dipikasoni\">Dipika Soni<\/a> (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06)<\/strong>. Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/degradejapan\" target=\"_blank\">DEGRADE<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>The following facebook group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?sk=group_208001615880704&amp;ap=1\">Japan: A Land of Fragile Beauty, or Take a Break from the News Feed<\/a>, was set up by a JET based in Ishikawa Prefecture in the days after the earthquake. The group description says <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an attempt to create some sort of haven away from the constant images of death and destruction that we&#8217;re being bombarded with on TV and the internet. Post whatever you want&#8230;thoughts, music, haikus, pictures of Japan that don&#8217;t make you want to cry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- The following facebook group, Japan: A Land of Fragile Beauty, or Take a Break from the News Feed, was set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4G6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}