{"id":31780,"date":"2013-09-03T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31780"},"modified":"2013-09-03T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:18:14","slug":"jetwit-mentioned-in-japan-times-article-jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/03\/jetwit-mentioned-in-japan-times-article-jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"JETwit mentioned in Japan Times article &#8220;JET Alumni:  Advocates for Japan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A great Return On JET-vestment article that ran today in the Japan Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<hgroup>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/09\/03\/national\/jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan\/#.UiaU_GRATv0\">JET alumni: Advocates for Japan<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>Program lauded for continuing to bear cultural fruit, friendships<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<h5 role=\"author\">BY\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Ayako Mie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/author\/int-ayako_mie\/\">AYAKO MIE<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the full article: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/09\/03\/national\/jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan\/#.UiaU_GRATv0\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/09\/03\/national\/jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan\/#.UiaU_GRATv0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steven Horowitz, who was a JET in Aichi Prefecture from 1992 to 1994, likened his former colleagues to a global expat community of around 60,000 people in terms of their shared affection for Japan. \u201cI think it is going to pay . . . dividends for years and years to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To consolidate the alumni network, Horowitz runs <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\"><strong>JETwit.com<\/strong><\/a>, a website that accumulates information about alumni and Japan-related jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great Return On JET-vestment article that ran today in the Japan Times: JET alumni: Advocates for Japan Program lauded for continuing to bear cultural fruit, friendships BY\u00a0AYAKO MIE STAFF WRITER Here&#8217;s the full article: \u00a0http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/09\/03\/national\/jet-alumni-advocates-for-japan\/#.UiaU_GRATv0 Here&#8217;s the quote: Steven Horowitz, who was a JET in Aichi Prefecture from 1992 to 1994, likened his former [&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":[4,318,304,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8gA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780","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=31780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31783,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions\/31783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}