{"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":"<p><em>Professional translator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/12\/beppu-hot-springs-master-joel-dechant-cir-fukuoka-ken-2001-04\/\" target=\"_self\">Joel Dechant<\/a> (CIR Fukuoka-ken, 2001-04)<\/strong> recently became a guest blogger for <a href=\"http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fukuoka Now<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com<\/a>).\u00a0 Have a look at his first post on the site:<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_543\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543\" title=\"Bean Sweets\" src=\"http:\/\/fukuokanow.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/bean-sweets.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"Bean paste, dumplings and beans...oh my!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bean paste, dumplings and beans...oh my!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/beppuhatto.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">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 <em>du jour<\/em>. Today I\u2019d like to talk about bean paste.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>CHOMP!<\/p>\n<p>WTF?!<\/p>\n<p>ACK!!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fukuokanow.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/28\/bean-there-done-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading &#8220;Bean There, Done That&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":[7,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-translatinginterpreting","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","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=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}