{"id":1898,"date":"2008-12-01T20:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2008-12-01T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:56:27","slug":"is-author-david-mitchell-a-jet-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/01\/is-author-david-mitchell-a-jet-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Is author David Mitchell a JET alum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/images\/2005\/05-columns\/05-16-05\/david_mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"205\" \/>Can anyone confirm whether award-winning author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Mitchell_(author)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Mitchell<\/strong><\/a> is an alumni of the JET Program?\u00a0 His <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Mitchell_(author)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> and other info on the web make clear that he lived in Hiroshima for 8 years and taught English at a technical school.\u00a0 Just trying to confirm whether he&#8217;s a JET alum.<\/p>\n<p>E-mail any info to <a href=\"mailto:jetwit@jetwit.com\"><strong>jetwit \/atto\/ jetwit \/dotto\/ com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, he is the author of (among other things) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghostwritten\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ghostwritten <\/em><\/a>(1999), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number9dream\" target=\"_blank\"><em>number9dream<\/em><\/a> (2001), and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_Atlas\" target=\"_blank\">CloudAtlas<\/a> <\/em>(2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone confirm whether award-winning author David Mitchell is an alumni of the JET Program?\u00a0 His Wikipedia entry and other info on the web make clear that he lived in Hiroshima for 8 years and taught English at a technical school.\u00a0 Just trying to confirm whether he&#8217;s a JET alum. E-mail any info to jetwit [&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":[40,26,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-uC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}