{"id":21470,"date":"2011-09-15T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21470"},"modified":"2011-09-15T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:56:46","slug":"jet-alu-returns-to-minamisanriku-with-charity-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/15\/jet-alu-returns-to-minamisanriku-with-charity-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum returns to Minamisanriku with charity funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Jen Wang (Miyagi, 2008-09)<\/strong> created the alias &#8220;<strong>Hibari-sensei&#8221;<\/strong> for her Japanese pop culture blog, <\/em><em><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hibarisensei.wordpress.com\/\">Gaijin Teacher Otaku<\/a><\/strong>, after her students called her by the name of a character she cosplayed. She also writes for J-music website <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/purpleskymagazine.com\/\">Purple SKY<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canon Purdy<\/strong> <strong>(Miyagi, 2008-10)<\/strong> made headlines when <em>Today<\/em>&#8216;s Ann Curry found tracked her down after the earthquake and tsunami hit Minamisanriku, where she was visiting former students. She then started up <a href=\"http:\/\/savemiyagi.org\/\">Save Miyagi<\/a> to help the students she had once taught. NBC Bay Area did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Survivor-Returns-to-Japan-After-Quake-Tsunami-128487758.html\">follow-up report<\/a> on her trip back to Minamisanriku in late August, where she handed over the 300 thousand yen (roughly $3500) she raised to the board of education.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21474\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SUC51865.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21474\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21474\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SUC51865-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SUC51865-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SUC51865.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the Save Miyagi blog<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Wang (Miyagi, 2008-09) created the alias &#8220;Hibari-sensei&#8221; for her Japanese pop culture blog, Gaijin Teacher Otaku, after her students called her by the name of a character she cosplayed. She also writes for J-music website Purple SKY. Canon Purdy (Miyagi, 2008-10) made headlines when Today&#8216;s Ann Curry found tracked her down after the earthquake [&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":[378,133,318,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-jets-in-the-news","category-volunteer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470","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=21470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21484,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions\/21484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}