{"id":18408,"date":"2011-03-29T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2011-03-29T20:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:41:49","slug":"tsunami-reflections-by-iwate-jet-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/29\/tsunami-reflections-by-iwate-jet-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami Reflections by Iwate JET Alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Renay Loper (ALT, Iwate 2006-2007) is a freelance writer and international education professional currently seeking FT opportunities.  Visit her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasinherhand.com\">Atlas In Her Hand<\/a> <\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Although a couple of weeks have passed since the disaster, each day seems to bring a new struggle to Japan, and more importantly, the people.  If you are anything like me, events like this humbly (and sadly) have a way of putting things into perspective &#8211; we just never know what the next minute, hour, or day has in store for us. <\/p>\n<p>All it takes is one second.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place In My Heart<\/strong><br \/>\nBe ready. It is not known what the universe has in store for you within the next year\u2026month\u2026week\u2026day\u2026hour. Realistically, life changes in an instant. A lot of time is not needed for anything to happen \u2013 good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>All too often it takes that instant of something happening to put things into perspective \u2013 whether it be a birth, a death, a natural or man-made disaster, a proclamation of \u201cyou are now man and wife\u201d, a car accident, a revelation of infidelity\u2026or well, you get the point. We just never know what is around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the post click <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasinherhand.com\/?p=539\">HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasinherhand.com\">Atlas In Her Hand<\/a> is Renay&#8217;s travel blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renay Loper (ALT, Iwate 2006-2007) is a freelance writer and international education professional currently seeking FT opportunities. Visit her at Atlas In Her Hand Although a couple of weeks have passed since the disaster, each day seems to bring a new struggle to Japan, and more importantly, the people. If you are anything like me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"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-18408","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-4MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18420,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions\/18420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}