{"id":7146,"date":"2009-06-24T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2009-06-24T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:46:45","slug":"jetwits-and-pieces-fojs-wojs-sojs-and-other-awkward-jeterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/jetwits-and-pieces-fojs-wojs-sojs-and-other-awkward-jeterms\/","title":{"rendered":"JETWits and Pieces:  FOJs, WOJs, SOJs and other awkward JETerms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7147\" title=\"Multicultural\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Multicultural.jpg\" alt=\"Multicultural\" width=\"219\" height=\"200\" \/>I don&#8217;t know how other JET alumni chapters deal with this issue, but in JETAA NY we refer to members of our community who are not officially JET alums as <strong>&#8220;Friends of JET&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;FOJs&#8221;<\/strong> (pronounced <em>fahjz).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the term <strong>&#8220;WOJ&#8221;<\/strong> (i.e., <strong>&#8220;Wife of JET&#8221;<\/strong>) occasionally comes up.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, while it hasn&#8217;t caught on yet, I propose increased use of the term <strong>&#8220;SOJ&#8221;<\/strong> (i.e., <strong>&#8220;Significant Other of JET&#8221;<\/strong>) for those vague and undefined relationships that require a category in the JET context.\u00a0 (Though I suppose <strong>FOJ<\/strong> could also apply to <strong>&#8220;Fiancee of JET&#8221;<\/strong> as well.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How you do deal with this issue in your chapter or JET-vironment?\u00a0 Share comments on this post, or <a href=\"mailto:jetwit@jetwit.com\">send JetWit an email<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how other JET alumni chapters deal with this issue, but in JETAA NY we refer to members of our community who are not officially JET alums as &#8220;Friends of JET&#8221; or &#8220;FOJs&#8221; (pronounced fahjz). Additionally, the term &#8220;WOJ&#8221; (i.e., &#8220;Wife of JET&#8221;) occasionally comes up. And lastly, while it hasn&#8217;t caught on [&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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1Rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","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=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}