{"id":5447,"date":"2009-04-28T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2009-04-28T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:59:42","slug":"bean-there-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/28\/bean-there-done-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean There, Done That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional translator Joel Dechant<\/a> (CIR Fukuoka-ken, 2001-04)<\/strong> recently became a guest blogger for Fukuoka Now<\/strong><\/a> (http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com<\/a>).\u00a0 Have a look at his first post on the site:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Bean

Bean paste, dumplings and beans...oh my!<\/p><\/div>\n

Hi, my name is Joel. I\u2019m\u00a0 from Pennsylvania in the US and have been living in Ropponmatsu since 2007. I majored in Japanese at university, spent a year abroad in Kyoto, and have been in Japan since graduating in 2000. I\u2019ve lived in Osaka, Kirishima (Kagoshima), and Beppu,<\/a> and after turning freelance, I decided to make Fukuoka my home base. I\u2019m a translator by day, a bluesman by night and the Guest Blogger du jour<\/em>. Today I\u2019d like to talk about bean paste.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been about 10 years since I first came to Japan and I fondly remember my maiden voyage as a study abroad student. My scholarship covered my airfare on a luxurious JAL flight complete with beautiful cabin attendants and a smoking section (I don\u2019t smoke anymore, but back then I was in heaven). I don\u2019t recall the food, however, because of traumatic desert experience. Something akin to a soft, delicious jelly donut was daintily laid on my plate, and after smoking who knows how many cigarettes, I was ready to tuck into that \u201cdonut\u201d.<\/p>\n

CHOMP!<\/p>\n

WTF?!<\/p>\n

ACK!!<\/p>\n

Continue reading “Bean There, Done That”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professional translator Joel Dechant (CIR Fukuoka-ken, 2001-04) recently became a guest blogger for Fukuoka Now (http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com).\u00a0 Have a look at his first post on the site: Hi, my name is Joel. I\u2019m\u00a0 from Pennsylvania in the US and have been living in Ropponmatsu since 2007. I majored in Japanese at university, spent a year abroad […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-translatinginterpreting","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t