{"id":6091,"date":"2009-05-17T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2009-05-17T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:57:13","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/17\/jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-3\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"..\/2009\/04\/22\/2009\/04\/08\/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>We&#8217;re well into spring, the flowers and trees are blossoming and likewise the JET blogosphere is busier than ever! Check it:<\/p>\n<p>We have an awesome new addition to the blog roll, from JET alum <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maikotobybomber.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Weymiller<\/a><\/strong>, currently residing in lovely Hokkaido with his wife Maiko and cat Bomber. He has some amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/maikotobybomber.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/few-pictures.html\" target=\"_blank\">photos<\/a> up of his new house to be, and is also organizing <a href=\"http:\/\/maikotobybomber.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/blog-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">workshops<\/a> around each phase of the house build. Check it out if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Writer <a href=\"http:\/\/thecrazypetesblotter.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kelly Luce<\/strong><\/a> (Kawasaki, 2002-2003) is another recent addition to the blogroll. Follow her literary adventures <a href=\"http:\/\/thecrazypetesblotter.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Author<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Suzanne Kamata,<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>(Tokushima-ken, 1988-90) shares news of her <a href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">winning weekend<\/a> in Tokyo, where she found out that both her books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9781932279337-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Call Me Okaasan<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leapfrogpress.com\/available-books\/Losing_Kei.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Losing Kei<\/em><\/a> were nominees in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards\u00a0 right on the heels of the launch party for her new book.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re thinking ahead to August, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Weston<\/a><\/strong> (Nara-ken, 2002-2004) will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/16\/kidspark-kitchener-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kidspark<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/16\/kidspark-kitchener-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Festival<\/a> in Kitchener, Ontario in August.<\/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. We&#8217;re well into spring, the flowers and trees [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}