{"id":3676,"date":"2009-02-20T05:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2009-02-20T05:27:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T05:27:19","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-short-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/20\/jetwit-blog-beat-short-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat: Short and Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"..\/..\/2009\/02\/13\/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:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert P. Weston<\/strong><\/a> (Nara-ken, 2002-04) is pleasantly surprised to find out about the <a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/19\/green-earth-book-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Book Award<\/a>, which is designed &#8220;to promote books that inspire a child to grow a deeper appreciation, respect and responsibility for his or her natural environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current JET <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodygodoy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jody Godoy<\/a><\/strong> (Fukui-ken, 2005-2009), brings a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodygodoy.com\/archives\/72\" target=\"_blank\">taste of inaka life<\/a> to her readers as she prepares to leave JET.<\/p>\n<p>Still trying to make it up to your sweetie for a less than stellar Valentine&#8217;s Day? Rack up bonus points by sending him\/her this <a href=\"http:\/\/leesean.net\/2009\/02\/14\/youre-for-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">sweet tune<\/a> found on <a href=\"http:\/\/leesean.net\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lee-Sean Huang&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> (Oita-ken, 2003-06) <a href=\"http:\/\/leesean.net\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday, everyone!<\/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. Robert P. Weston (Nara-ken, 2002-04) is pleasantly [&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":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Xi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}