{"id":3189,"date":"2009-02-03T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2009-02-04T04:28:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:28:26","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-the-cheetos-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/jetwit-blog-beat-the-cheetos-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat:  The Cheetos Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"center;\"><em><strong>**********<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>JetWit Blog Beat<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/crystalw\"><strong>Crystal Wong<\/strong><\/a> (Iwate-ken, 2002-04)<strong> <\/strong>is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Crystal is a former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She now works as a media planner in Chelsea and sorely misses all her favorite midtown ramen joints.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing brightens a gloomy winter morning faster than a dose of that irresistible Engrish the Japanese churn out so prolifically (despite our best efforts to guide them otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>Cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lars Martinson<\/strong><\/a> (Fukuoka, 2003-2006), author of the graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/category\/comic-books\/graphic-novel-tonoharu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Tonoharu: Part 1<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, shares a gem found on a bag of &#8220;Gourmet Cheetos&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/sophisticated-junk-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/sophisticated-junk-food\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cheetos1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3190\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cheetos1-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cheetos1-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cheetos1.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>********** JetWit Blog Beat by Crystal Wong (Iwate-ken, 2002-04) is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Crystal is a former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She now works as a media planner in Chelsea and sorely misses all her favorite midtown ramen joints. Nothing brightens a gloomy winter morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[42,7,12,9,6],"tags":[89,88,87,90],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-blogs","category-cartoonillustration","category-humor","category-writers","tag-cheetos","tag-engrish","tag-jetwit-blogbeat","tag-lars-martinson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}