{"id":4955,"date":"2009-04-08T03:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2009-04-08T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:27:14","slug":"jetwit-blogbeat-by-crystal-wong-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/08\/jetwit-blogbeat-by-crystal-wong-3\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit BlogBeat by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"..\/2009\/03\/30\/2009\/03\/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 formerEnglish-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>Happy hanami season, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>JET alumni <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispeakjapanese.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kevin<\/strong> and <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispeakjapanese.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron<\/a> <\/strong>seek to educate the masses about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispeakjapanese.net\/videos\/japanese-manners-being-polite-in-japa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese manners<\/a> on their new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispeakjapanese.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">iSpeakJapanese<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispeakjapanese.net\/videos\/japanese-manners-being-polite-in-japa\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> covers all the basics that can be a mystery to gaijin, including indoor and outdoor shoes, chopsticks, and tipping as well and a funny tale to boot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MEF alum Bruce Rutledge<\/strong><\/a>, founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chin Music Press<\/a> in Seattle introduces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/adding_to_the_adventure.html\" target=\"_blank\">new members of his staff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/hanami-season-idea-for-weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4964 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf19591-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dscf19591\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf19591-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf19591.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Devon Brown<\/a> <\/strong>(Tokyo-to, 2002-2004) shares her tips for a <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/hanami-season-idea-for-weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\">hanami picnic<\/a> this weekend.<\/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 formerEnglish-language writer for Kyodo News. She now works as a media planner in Chelsea and sorely misses all her favorite midtown ramen joints. Happy hanami season, everyone! JET alumni Kevin and [&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":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1hV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}