{"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":"

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<\/a> <\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n

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 – we just never know what the next minute, hour, or day has in store for us. <\/p>\n

All it takes is one second.<\/p>\n

Place In My Heart<\/strong>
\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

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

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Atlas In Her Hand<\/a> is Renay’s travel blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t