{"id":18678,"date":"2011-04-08T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2011-04-08T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:44:11","slug":"jet-alum-canon-purdys-save-miyagi-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/08\/jet-alum-canon-purdys-save-miyagi-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Canon Purdy&#8217;s &#8220;Save Miyagi Fund&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <strong>Jen Wang (Miyagi-ken, Tome-shi, 2008-09)<\/strong>, writer for J-music website <strong><a title=\"Purple Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/purpleskymagazine.com\/\">Purple Sky<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 She also maintains her own J-pop culture blog, <strong><a title=\"Gaijin Teacher Otaku\" href=\"http:\/\/hibarisensei.wordpress.com\/\">Gaijin Teacher Otaku<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JET alum and tsunami survivor<strong> Canon Purdy<\/strong> (Miyagi-ken, Shizugawa-cho, 2008-10) has created the <strong><a title=\"Save Miyagi\" href=\"http:\/\/savemiyagi.org\/\">Save Miyagi<\/a><\/strong> fund with her family to help the students in <strong>Minamisanriku<\/strong>.\u00a0 Currently she is working with the mayor and the BOE to determine where the funds are needed most.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to seeking donations, she is asking both current and former JETs to send her links to fundraisers and other charity events to be promoted on the <strong>Save Miyagi<\/strong> site.\u00a0 She is also looking for <strong>photos of places before they were destroyed by the tsunami<\/strong> to send to the victims as a way to raise morale and give them something to hold onto.<\/p>\n<p>You can email your links and photos to <strong>canon.purdy [at] gmail.com<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jen Wang (Miyagi-ken, Tome-shi, 2008-09), writer for J-music website Purple Sky.\u00a0 She also maintains her own J-pop culture blog, Gaijin Teacher Otaku. JET alum and tsunami survivor Canon Purdy (Miyagi-ken, Shizugawa-cho, 2008-10) has created the Save Miyagi fund with her family to help the students in Minamisanriku.\u00a0 Currently she is working with the mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"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":[378,133,318,319,304,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-jets-in-the-news","category-local-government","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4Rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18685,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}