{"id":6979,"date":"2009-06-18T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2009-06-19T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:15:33","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-new-blogs-to-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/18\/jetwit-blog-beat-new-blogs-to-check-out\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat – New blogs to check out!"},"content":{"rendered":"
JetWit Blog Beat<\/strong><\/a> is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Guest <\/em>poster Kelly Nixon<\/strong> (Iwate<\/strong>, 2003-06)\u00a0currently\u00a0works\u00a0in Administration\u00a0for Japan Airlines\u00a0and serves as Treasurer for the JET Alumni Association of\u00a0New York.<\/em><\/div>\n
Since\u00a0this is my\u00a0first time posting for the JetWit Blog Beat it seems appropriate to introduce both myself as well as a lot of great new JET blogs at the same time.<\/div>\n

Hello!\u00a0 I’m Kelly – RSS feed fiend and fellow former Iwate ALT (indeed, just like the Blog Beat’s own Crystal Wong<\/strong><\/a>!).\u00a0\u00a0Fret not, Crystal has not forsaken the JET blogosphere.\u00a0 There are just so many blogs to keep up with that I have offered\u00a0to lend her a hand on occasion.<\/p>\n

Now to get on to the goods – more new blogs than you can shake a stick at!<\/p>\n

* A\u00a0favorite blog of mine and one that I\u00a0personally recommended\u00a0for the blog roll is Japandra<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This little treasure-trove of a blog is brought to you by Sandra<\/strong>, a NY expat and JET alum currently living in Tokyo, who has keen eye for those little irregular hilarities which sneak into the Japanese landscape.\u00a0 What are you waiting for?\u00a0 That fuzzy natsukashii<\/em> “Haha, only in Japan!” feeling is just a click<\/a> away…<\/p>\n

* Sean Sakamoto<\/strong> of I’d Rather Be in Japan<\/a> <\/strong>lives it up in the wild and wondrous beauty of Gifu.\u00a0 In one of his most recent posts he brings the forest to us in an excellent home-made video series on how to harvest, prepare, and enjoy eating…bamboo!<\/p>\n

* Next up is Jason’s Adventures in Rural Japan<\/strong><\/a> (aka Shimane).\u00a0 Although Jason is currently packing up to return to the U.S.,\u00a0his blog is a great place to peruse his selection of\u00a0the past year’s omoshiroi<\/em> Japanese YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

* Are you a prospective JET itching to find more information about the JET teaching experience in rural areas?\u00a0 If so (or even if not!), check out Mel’s Adventures in Japan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Take some time to enjoy the comedic writing style of Steve Rogers<\/strong>, a lover of all things list-worthy (he even writes lists… about lists!), who does very well keeping his sense of humor while enduring Northern Tohoku Exposure<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* D. Freeman<\/strong> – photographer, web guru, and writer – takes his readers on a myriad of viral-worthy adventures.\u00a0 Check his site to find out what is the What-What<\/strong><\/a> on the interweb today.<\/p>\n

* Finally, we would like to introduce another\u00a0successful JET writer Christy Burne<\/strong><\/a> (Hyogo-ken) who has just been given the first Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices<\/strong><\/a> book award, an award that aims to celebrate cultural diversity in children’s literature.\u00a0 Her book, Takeshita Demons<\/em>, will be published next year and is based on the adventures of a Japanese schoolgirl named Miku.\u00a0 Be sure to keep up with all the exciting developments<\/a> for Christy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JetWit Blog Beat is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Guest poster Kelly Nixon (Iwate, 2003-06)\u00a0currently\u00a0works\u00a0in Administration\u00a0for Japan Airlines\u00a0and serves as Treasurer for the JET Alumni Association of\u00a0New York. Since\u00a0this is my\u00a0first time posting for the JetWit Blog Beat it seems appropriate to introduce both myself as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1Oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}