{"id":1933,"date":"2008-12-03T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2008-12-03T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T12:50:02","slug":"teachers-run-around-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/teachers-run-around-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Run Around in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/mags\/qf\/c\/PopularScience\/6-1936\/med_tread_skates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"186\" \/>Noriko Furuhata, the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, recently explained to me the term <em><strong>shiwasu<\/strong><\/em>, which literally means &#8220;teachers run around&#8221; and refers to December being an extremely busy month as everyone tries to finish up everything they need to do before year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to post comments if you have additional perspective on this term.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering how I made it through 3+ years in Japan and 7 years of JET alumni involvement without ever previously hearing about this. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noriko Furuhata, the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, recently explained to me the term shiwasu, which literally means &#8220;teachers run around&#8221; and refers to December being an extremely busy month as everyone tries to finish up everything they need to do before year&#8217;s end. Feel free to post comments [&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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","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=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}