{"id":21612,"date":"2011-09-26T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2011-09-26T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:19:05","slug":"wit-life-180-summer-of-setsuden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/26\/wit-life-180-summer-of-setsuden\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #180: \u7bc0\u96fb\u306e\u590f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\"><em><strong>WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> is a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>r<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>es s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pinktentacle.com\/images\/11\/setsuden_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hisashiburi and following the celebration of \u79cb\u5206\u306e\u65e5 (shubun no hi, or Autumnal Equinox Day) this past weekend, welcome to fall!\u00a0 Commemorating the passing of the season is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/26\/opinion\/in-japan-the-summer-of-setsuden.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha211\">editorial from this morning&#8217;s NYT,<\/a> which discusses the \u7bc0\u96fb (setsuden, or energy saving) measures the Japanese undertook this summer and their success.<\/p>\n<p>Also, make sure to check out this series of <a href=\"http:\/\/pinktentacle.com\/2011\/03\/electricity-conservation-posters\/\">setsuden posters<\/a> mentioned in the article.\u00a0 They were created by a community of graphic designers in response to a call to arms on Twitter.\u00a0 The one pictured here is a spoof on the ubiquitous construction poster and reads, &#8220;Please save energy,&#8221; and in smaller lettering on the side, &#8220;For all of the disaster areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Hisashiburi and following the celebration of \u79cb\u5206\u306e\u65e5 (shubun no hi, or Autumnal Equinox Day) this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[378,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5CA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21623,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions\/21623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}