{"id":31573,"date":"2013-08-23T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31573"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:56:36","slug":"life-after-jet-asian-american-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/23\/life-after-jet-asian-american-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After JET: Asian-American Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/commdao.com\/\">Blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discussionswithdao.wordpress.com\/\">podcaster<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Jon Dao<\/strong>\u00a0<em><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755165&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Toyama<\/a>-ken, 2009-12)<\/strong><\/em> opens up about his special case of culture shock.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blackjackjohnny.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/identitycrisisasianamerican.jpg?w=512\" width=\"276\" height=\"280\" \/>For awhile it just felt like I was on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>But then being around started to become the norm. Everybody had their routines while I was stuck sorting things out. Suddenly,\u00a0Japan felt really far away. The last 3 years of my life felt like a daydream.<\/p>\n<p>My best friend assured me the next &#8220;big move&#8221; would take time.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You went out there and did great, just like I knew you would. You went and touched people&#8217;s lives, just like I knew you would. But I think you&#8217;re going to find your real big payoff here. Because in your heart, the way you think, you&#8217;re American.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this was true. I couldn&#8217;t say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/commdao.com\/2012\/10\/04\/identity-crisis-asian-american\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster\u00a0Jon Dao\u00a0(Toyama-ken, 2009-12) opens up about his special case of culture shock. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 For awhile it just felt like I was on vacation. But then being around started to become the norm. Everybody had their routines while I was stuck sorting things out. Suddenly,\u00a0Japan felt really far away. The last 3 years of my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"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":[825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifeafterjet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31573","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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31591,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31573\/revisions\/31591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}