{"id":18161,"date":"2011-03-21T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18161"},"modified":"2011-03-21T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:34:39","slug":"man-up-for-japan-innovative-fundraising-effort-by-jet-david-chalmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/21\/man-up-for-japan-innovative-fundraising-effort-by-jet-david-chalmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Up For Japan:  Innovative fundraising effort by JET David Chalmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ManUpForJapan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18163\" title=\"ManUpForJapan\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ManUpForJapan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ManUpForJapan.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ManUpForJapan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a>You may have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=198359066854878&amp;ref=nf\"><strong>&#8220;Man Up For Japan&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> all over Facebook or elsewhere.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an article about JET David Chalmers (originally from Scotland) and his efforts to help fundraise for earthquake relief in Japan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Scot does his bit to aid Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published Date: 20 March 2011<\/p>\n<p>By Nick Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>A CAMPAIGN launched by a Scot based in Japan to raise cash for the current disaster relief effort has received support from almost 5,000 people and could generate hundreds of thousands of pounds in aid.<\/p>\n<p>Taking its name from &#8220;ichi man yen&#8221;, the Japanese for 10,000 yen, the Facebook-driven campaign is called &#8220;Man up for Japan&#8221; and is asking people to pledge the sum (around \u00a375) to a relief charity of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>The concept was devised by <strong>David Chalmers<\/strong>, 24, an Edinburgh native who is currently tutoring Japanese students in English through the popular <strong>Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/world\/Scot-does-his-bit-to.6737176.jp\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to read the full article<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DavidChalmers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18164\" title=\"DavidChalmers\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DavidChalmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DavidChalmers.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DavidChalmers-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen &#8220;Man Up For Japan&#8221; all over Facebook or elsewhere.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an article about JET David Chalmers (originally from Scotland) and his efforts to help fundraise for earthquake relief in Japan. Scot does his bit to aid Japan Published Date: 20 March 2011 By Nick Mitchell A CAMPAIGN launched by a Scot [&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":[378,133,304,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-notable-jet-alums","category-volunteer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4IV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","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=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18165,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}