{"id":4174,"date":"2009-03-12T05:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2009-03-12T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:12:32","slug":"4174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/12\/4174\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/2009\/02\/13\/category\/jetwit-blog-beat\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/awesome-escalator\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4175\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/awesome-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"awesome\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/awesome-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/awesome.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span><a href=\"..\/2009\/02\/13\/category\/jetwit-blog-beat\/\"><strong><em>JetWit Blog Beat<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><em> by <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/crystalw\"><span><strong><em>Crystal Wong<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><em> (Iwate-ken, 2002-04)<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>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><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert P. Weston<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (Nara-ken, 2002-04) recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/06\/keep-the-aspidistra-flying-by-george-orwell\/\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> as a must read for all aspiring readers.<\/p>\n<p>JET alum<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larsmartinson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lars Martinson<\/a><\/strong> shares a piece of<a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/awesome-escalator\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Japanese whimsy<\/a>.\u00a0 If only the elevators in New York (or anything else, for that matter) were that friendly! (<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note<\/span>:\u00a0 For a good laugh, make sure to read the first comment to Lars&#8217; blog post<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/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) recommends this [&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":[7,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cartoonillustration","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/skZ7m-4174","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}