{"id":34522,"date":"2014-04-04T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=34522"},"modified":"2014-04-04T17:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:01:44","slug":"jet-alum-featured-on-abc-news-for-building-tsunami-proof-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/04\/jet-alum-featured-on-abc-news-for-building-tsunami-proof-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum featured on ABC News for building tsunami-proof ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/modern-day-noah4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-34524\" alt=\"modern-day-noah4\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/modern-day-noah4.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/modern-day-noah4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/modern-day-noah4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to JETAA DC&#8217;s Mac Maloney for alerting JETwit to this:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3753162&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Fukushima<\/a> JET alum <a href=\"http:\/\/tsunamiball.com\/\"><strong>Chris Robinson<\/strong><\/a>, former art director for Facebook who lives in Palo Alto, CA, is featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/modern-day-noah-makes-tsunami-154204077.html\">this ABC News segment<\/a>. \u00a0It explains how he lived in Fukushima during the tsunami and how a few years later he decided to build an ark in the event of a tsunami. \u00a0Notably, he specifically mentions the JET Program in the interview. \u00a0Very cool video. \u00a0Have a look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/modern-day-noah-makes-tsunami-154204077.html\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/modern-day-noah-makes-tsunami-154204077.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Robinson-Tsunami-Capsulelead-e1394793970352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34523 aligncenter\" alt=\"Chris-Robinson-Tsunami-Capsulelead-e1394793970352\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Robinson-Tsunami-Capsulelead-e1394793970352.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Robinson-Tsunami-Capsulelead-e1394793970352.jpg 728w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Robinson-Tsunami-Capsulelead-e1394793970352-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More photos here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/tsunami-pod\/\">http:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/tsunami-pod\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Interview with Chris in <i>Wired<\/i> here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/03\/tsunami-lifeboat\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/03\/tsunami-lifeboat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s Chris&#8217; blog,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tsunamiball.com\/\">Tsunamiball<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tsunamiball.com\/\">http:\/\/tsunamiball.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More video, from the\u00a0<em>Wired<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>interview that explains the details of the ark:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.cnevids.com\/\/embed\/52f29c8069702d51b4190000\/5176e89e68f9daff42000013\" height=\"390\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JETAA DC&#8217;s Mac Maloney for alerting JETwit to this: Fukushima JET alum Chris Robinson, former art director for Facebook who lives in Palo Alto, CA, is featured in this ABC News segment. \u00a0It explains how he lived in Fukushima during the tsunami and how a few years later he decided to build an [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[378,318,825,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-jets-in-the-news","category-lifeafterjet","category-notable-jet-alums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8YO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522","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=34522"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34533,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions\/34533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}