{"id":25914,"date":"2012-06-26T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=25914"},"modified":"2012-06-26T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:28:48","slug":"23-students-from-taylor-andersons-high-school-to-visit-ishinomaki-as-part-of-japanese-government-sponsored-exchange-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/26\/23-students-from-taylor-andersons-high-school-to-visit-ishinomaki-as-part-of-japanese-government-sponsored-exchange-program\/","title":{"rendered":"23 students from Taylor Anderson&#8217;s high school to visit Ishinomaki as part of Japanese government sponsored exchange program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thanks to Andy Anderson for sharing the information about this exchange.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three students from <strong>Taylor Anderson&#8217;s<\/strong> high school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st.catherines.org\/tayloranderson\">St. Catherine&#8217;s<\/a>, will be visiting Japan, including <strong>Ishinomaki<\/strong>, as part of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurasian.org\/kizuna\/index.htm\"><strong>The Kizuna Project<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; \u00a0The Kizuna Project,\u00a0sponsored by the <strong>Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/strong>, is sending around \u00a01,000 American high school students to Japan this summer for a 2-week trip including sightseeing, a homestay with a Japanese family, and volunteering in the Tohoku area. All expenses &#8211; transportation, lodging, food &#8211; are covered by the Japanese government.<\/p>\n<p>The Kizuna Project is being coordinated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurasian.org\/\"><strong>Laurasian Institution<\/strong><\/a> in Seattle (where JET alum <strong>Megan Bernard<\/strong> works and is very involved in the project) as well as the Center for Global Partnership in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Andy Anderson for sharing the information about this exchange. Twenty-three students from Taylor Anderson&#8217;s high school, St. Catherine&#8217;s, will be visiting Japan, including Ishinomaki, as part of &#8220;The Kizuna Project.&#8221; \u00a0The Kizuna Project,\u00a0sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is sending around \u00a01,000 American high school students to Japan this summer for a [&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":[305],"tags":[1393,647,609,616,648],"class_list":["post-25914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-outreach","tag-cultural-outreach","tag-exchange-programs","tag-return-on-jet-vestment","tag-taylor-anderson","tag-us-japan-exchange"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6JY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914","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=25914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25915,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}