{"id":47534,"date":"2021-08-31T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=47534"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:57:37","slug":"wit-life-356-tokyo-2020-paralympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/31\/wit-life-356-tokyo-2020-paralympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #356: Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong>Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stacysmithinterpreting.com\/\">Stacy Smith<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">Kumamoto-ken<\/a>\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WIT Life<\/a>, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as art, film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to all the recent rain it seems as if the summer heat has broken a bit, but I can&#8217;t wait for fall to arrive, along with its cooler temps and \u7d05\u8449 (<em>kouyou<\/em>, or leaves changing color).  Though I must say I&#8217;m not quite ready for the ubiquitous pumpkin spice marketing that has already started!   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/index-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47537\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games began on August 24, and they feature over 4000 athletes from 162 National Paralympic Committees worldwide.  You can find a recap of the Opening Ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/en\/paralympics\/news\/top-moments-from-the-opening-ceremony-of-the-tokyo-2020-paralympic-games\" class=\"aioseop-link\">here<\/a>, and daily schedules\/results <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/paralympic-games\/en\/results\/all-sports\/paralympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-08-27.htm\" class=\"aioseop-link\">here<\/a>.  The Games will run through September 5, so happy viewing!    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer\u00a0Stacy Smith\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as art, film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations. Thanks to all the recent rain it seems as if the summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-cmG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47534","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50451,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47534\/revisions\/50451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}