{"id":5376,"date":"2009-04-24T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:06:07","slug":"us-high-school-japanese-karaoke-contest-via-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/24\/us-high-school-japanese-karaoke-contest-via-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. High School Japanese Karaoke Contest &#8211; via YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely some future JET alums in this crowd.\u00a0 It turns out there&#8217;s a national contest for U.S. high school students to submit &#8220;karaoke videos&#8221; in which they sing Japanese songs which are then judged by a panel of experts.\u00a0 (Come to think of it, I wonder if there are any JET alums now working as Japanese teachers who have students who submitted videos.)<\/p>\n<p>You can see the full slate of the winner and finalists here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheng-tsui.com\/superstar\/index.php?q=finalists\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cheng-tsui.com\/superstar\/index.php?q=finalists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the winning entry below:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LRDxMeWjm68&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LRDxMeWjm68&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely some future JET alums in this crowd.\u00a0 It turns out there&#8217;s a national contest for U.S. high school students to submit &#8220;karaoke videos&#8221; in which they sing Japanese songs which are then judged by a panel of experts.\u00a0 (Come to think of it, I wonder if there are any JET alums now working as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[19,21,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-music","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}