{"id":3511,"date":"2009-02-13T05:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2009-02-13T05:41:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T05:41:04","slug":"jetwit-blogbeat-winter-tomatoes-and-blasts-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/13\/jetwit-blogbeat-winter-tomatoes-and-blasts-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit BlogBeat: Winter Tomatoes and Blasts from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameskennedy.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3513 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hedgehog_smoking_gun-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"hedgehog_smoking_gun\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hedgehog_smoking_gun-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hedgehog_smoking_gun.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"..\/category\/jetwit-blog-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JetWit Blog Beat<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/crystalw\" target=\"_blank\"><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 Cry<\/em><em>stal<\/em><em> 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 joi<\/em><em>nts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Devon Brown<\/strong><\/a> (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) shares her <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/winter-tomato.html\" target=\"_blank\">thoughts<\/a> on making do without quality tomatoes during the winter season (although the jarringly springlike weather this past week would seem to indicate that summer might not be as far off as we think).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James Kennedy<\/strong><\/a> (Nara-ken, 2004-06), author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Order-Odd-Fish-James-Kennedy\/dp\/038573543X\" target=\"_blank\">The Order of Odd-Fish<\/a>, shares his charmingly illustrated experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\/2009\/02\/11\/thanks-mrs-vivians-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">visiting an old friend while meeting some new fans<\/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. Devon Brown (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) shares her thoughts [&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":[7,40,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-cartoonillustration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-UD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}