{"id":30070,"date":"2013-05-08T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T03:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30070"},"modified":"2013-05-08T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T03:29:11","slug":"meet-kitadaito-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/08\/meet-kitadaito-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kitadaito Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/authorBenjaminMartin\"><strong>Benjamin Martin<\/strong><\/a>, a 5th year JET on <a href=\"http:\/\/kumeguide.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kume Island<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755130&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Okinawa<\/a>, publisher of the blog <em><strong><a title=\"Japanese Culture, Food, Photos, and More!\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/samurai-awakening-wins-the-crystal-kite-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">award-winning<\/a> YA fantasy series\u00a0<\/em><strong><a title=\"Samurai Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai Awakening<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>(Tuttle).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your first question is probably a lot like mine when I got my placement in Kitadaito. Where?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of us on the JET programme end up in interesting locations that we&#8217;ve never heard of before. My first JET posting was on a small island, 320km east of the Okinawan mainland with a population of 550 people. I spent three years on Kitadaito and loved every(well pretty much) minute. A lot of what I learned there inspired my first two books <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/awakening\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai Awakening<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/revenge\" target=\"_blank\">Revenge of the Akuma Clan<\/a>. During my time on the island, I made a video for an event on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The video was my first ever and I used school equipment which, combined with my limited experience produced a so-so video. I went back with a bit more practice and re-did the video, upgrading the quality where I could and adding new material from <a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival\" target=\"_blank\">a visit last year<\/a>. I hope you enjoy this digital look at Kitadaito Island.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B12HKZceGMs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Benjamin Martin, a 5th year JET on Kume Island in Okinawa, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com\u00a0and author of the award-winning YA fantasy series\u00a0Samurai Awakening\u00a0(Tuttle). Your first question is probably a lot like mine when I got my placement in Kitadaito. Where? A lot of us on the JET programme end up in interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"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":[368,20,6],"tags":[994,191,993,785,1383],"class_list":["post-30070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveltourism","category-video","category-writers","tag-benjamin-martin","tag-japan","tag-kitadaito","tag-okinawa","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7P0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30072,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions\/30072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}