{"id":5681,"date":"2009-05-04T23:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2009-05-05T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:51:24","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/04\/jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/jetwit-blog-beat\/\" target=\"_self\"><span><strong><em>JetWit Blog Beat<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><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>Think sushi seems harmless? It can seem a little scarier in Japan. <a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lars Martinson<\/strong><\/a> reports <a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/scary-sushi-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/larsmartinson.com\/scary-sushi-ad\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5683\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sushi11-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"sushi11\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sushi11-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sushi11.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em>Check out a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\/2009\/04\/28\/my-wife-is-totally-pregnant\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\" target=\"_blank\">James Kennedy<\/a><\/strong> (Nara-ken, 2004-2006) that covers everything from Law Order to babies to entries to his <em>Write an Ending for The Strange Ship Part II Contest.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Also, <em>Oh!<\/em> is out!<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bruce Rutledge<\/strong><\/a> muses on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/the_cosplay_stimulus_package.html\" target=\"_blank\">future of anime conventions and what it means for the future of Chin Music Press. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/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. Think sushi seems harmless? It can seem a [&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":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1tD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5688,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}