{"id":6171,"date":"2009-05-21T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2009-05-20T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T17:33:29","slug":"there-n-back-again-toner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/21\/there-n-back-again-toner\/","title":{"rendered":"There &#8216;n Back Again:  **** Toner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>There &#8216;n Back Again <\/strong>shares the cultural re-adjustment reflections of <strong>Brendan Share\u00a0(Niigata-shi 2006-07)<\/strong>, the program director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericacenter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Japan America Learning Center<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericacenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japanamericacenter.com<\/a>.<\/em> in Scarsdale, NY.\u00a0 In addition to writing, Brendan also enjoys depicting idioms in cartoon format which can be seen at<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m at work this morning flipping through heaps of student lesson plans when a shrieking cat masquerading as my colleague&#8217;s voice leaps at me from the front office.\u00a0 After pulling out my trusty Japanese to English dictionary I was able to paste together an interesting semblance of terms, the majority of which were not that flowery in retrospect.\u00a0 It panned out as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who forgot to order **** toner for the **** copy machine??!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\u3002\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, she&#8217;s sweet, but the cursing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, toner tends to fall by the wayside when the task of getting 45 kids to pass the STEP Eiken test in June looms overhead.\u00a0 Even still I blinked and found myself cast back into the shadowy halls of Maki Nishi Junior High School.\u00a0 I started to get the feeling that I had not learned some valuable lesson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There &#8216;n Back Again shares the cultural re-adjustment reflections of Brendan Share\u00a0(Niigata-shi 2006-07), the program director for Japan America Learning Centerhttp:\/\/www.japanamericacenter.com. in Scarsdale, NY.\u00a0 In addition to writing, Brendan also enjoys depicting idioms in cartoon format which can be seen at So I&#8217;m at work this morning flipping through heaps of student lesson plans when [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","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-1Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}