{"id":28272,"date":"2012-12-15T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=28272"},"modified":"2012-12-14T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T02:55:18","slug":"jet-alum-author-beat-12-15-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/15\/jet-alum-author-beat-12-15-12\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Author Beat 12.15.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a title=\"Gemma Vidal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gemvidal\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma Vidal<\/a> <strong>(Okayama-ken, 2010-12)<\/strong> is a recently returned JET seeking work in licensing\/merchandising (if it\u2019s within the publishing industry, even better!). You can usually find her in her little web spaces <a title=\"Gem in the Rough\" href=\"http:\/\/gemintherough.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gem in the Rough<\/a> and <a title=\"Peachy Keen\" href=\"http:\/\/moguripan.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peachy Keen<\/a> (her JET adventures) or training with San Jose Taiko. \u00a0If you know of any authors\/aspiring writers you\u2019d like to see featured in JET Alum Author Beat, just contact Gemma at <strong>gem.vidal \u00a0[at] gmail.com.\u00a0<\/strong>She would also like to express her deepest condolences to the community of Newtown, Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Roland Kelts\" href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a><strong> (Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em><strong>Japanamerica\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>wrote a special article for The Japan Times where he interviewed Pete Townshend, guitarist of The Who and discussed UK\/Japan post-WWII similarities and Mr. Townshend&#8217;s recent memoir, &#8220;Who I Am&#8221;. You can find the article <a title=\"Townshend article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/fm20121206a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Roland Kelts also posted an interesting article on the possible decline of the pop culture phenomenon &#8220;Japan Cool&#8221;. That article can be found here at <a title=\"losing its cool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-Pacific\/2012\/1208\/Is-Japan-losing-its-cool\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re looking for some light entertainment, Young Adult book\u00a0<em>Guardian of the Dead&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>New Zealand author\u00a0<a title=\"Karen Healey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenhealey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Healey<\/a>\u00a0self-published a collection of essays titled\u00a0<em>Teen Movie Times.\u00a0<\/em>In this collection she muses on teen movie &#8220;classics&#8221; such as <em>Bring it On<\/em> and <em>Clueless<\/em>. Who knows, maybe one of these movies can be used in one of your lessons?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Vidal (Okayama-ken, 2010-12) is a recently returned JET seeking work in licensing\/merchandising (if it\u2019s within the publishing industry, even better!). You can usually find her in her little web spaces Gem in the Rough and Peachy Keen (her JET adventures) or training with San Jose Taiko. \u00a0If you know of any authors\/aspiring writers you\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"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":[4,408,14,1,6],"tags":[1379],"class_list":["post-28272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-roland-kelts","category-uncategorized","category-writers","tag-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28272","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\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28273,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28272\/revisions\/28273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}