{"id":23543,"date":"2012-02-12T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T02:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23543"},"modified":"2012-02-12T22:45:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T02:45:54","slug":"wit-life-191-multiple-marathons-and-honolulu-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/12\/wit-life-191-multiple-marathons-and-honolulu-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #191: Multiple marathons and Honolulu highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WIT Life<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>is <\/strong><\/em>a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es s<\/strong><\/em>ome of the interesting tidb<\/strong><\/em>its and t<\/strong><\/em>rends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I head to Kumamoto, my home for three years during JET, to participate in the inaugural Kumamoto Marathon which will be held next weekend.\u00a0 The following weekend I will go up to Tokyo to participate for the fifth time in their amazing marathon.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to not only the running, but catching up with natsukashii friends, eating oishii food and most of all onsen!!!<\/p>\n

Speaking of oishii food, \"\"<\/a>I recently enjoyed the Hawaiian version of wagashi at my favorite shop in Honolulu, Kansai Yamato.\u00a0 This small stall in the food court of the fantastic Ala Moana mall sells handmade mochi in funky flavors like Kona coffee, mango and Oreo as well as more traditional offerings like kinako mochi.\u00a0 Pictured above are some of my purchases, the creative flavors of chocolate and peanut butter (aka Reeses) and Okinawan sweet potato\u00a0mochi.\u00a0 The former was good but I prefer a larger amount of peanut butter, so I went back and got the peanut butter (crunchy) mochi which did the trick…<\/p>\n

I \"\"<\/a>also found a booth selling goods to benefit Tohoku’s recovery effort via \u8d64\u3044\u7fbd\u6839 (Akai Hane or Red Feather) fundraising.\u00a0 The kanji initially caught my eye, so I stopped by to see what was being offered.\u00a0 The deal was a tee and tote bag for $26, all of which would be donated to the fund.\u00a0 They had cool designs and a Hope for Japan trademarked logo, and though the booth was abandoned when I was there the saleswoman said that sales have been brisk.\u00a0 Glad to see that fundraising efforts have not lost steam as we approach the disaster’s one-year anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

************************************************************************************* WIT Life 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. Tomorrow I head to Kumamoto, my home for three years during JET, to […]<\/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":[378,70,18,368,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-food-drink","category-translatinginterpreting","category-traveltourism","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-67J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543","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=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23569,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions\/23569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}