{"id":19670,"date":"2011-05-31T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=19670"},"modified":"2011-09-27T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:36:19","slug":"new-linkedin-group-monbusho-english-fellows-mefs-and-other-forerunners-to-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/31\/new-linkedin-group-monbusho-english-fellows-mefs-and-other-forerunners-to-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"New LinkedIn group:  Monbusho English Fellows (MEFs) and other forerunners to JET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>UPDATE 9\/27\/11:<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0 It turns out an MEF Group on LinkedIn was previously created by Thomas Schalow. \u00a0To join, go to this link: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?about=&amp;gid=3757582\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?about=&amp;gid=3757582<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m going to delete the group that I created and would like to encourage MEFs, BETs and other pre-JETs to join the version of the group set up by Thomas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yoroshiku!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***************************<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then I hear from a <strong>Monbusho English Fellow (MEF)<\/strong> or other person who was part of a pre-JET program in Japan.\u00a0 I know there are plenty more MEFs out there, and you are very much JET alums from the perspective of the JET alumni community.\u00a0 So I thought it would make sense to create a LinkedIn group for MEFs and others who participated in programs.\u00a0 (I think there was also a British English Teachers program?)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?about=&amp;gid=3757582\"><strong>Monbusho English Fellows (MEFs) LinkedIn Group<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 9\/27\/11:\u00a0 It turns out an MEF Group on LinkedIn was previously created by Thomas Schalow. \u00a0To join, go to this link: \u00a0http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?about=&amp;gid=3757582 &nbsp; I&#8217;m going to delete the group that I created and would like to encourage MEFs, BETs and other pre-JETs to join the version of the group set up by Thomas. Yoroshiku! [&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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-57g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670","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=19670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}