{"id":7404,"date":"2009-07-15T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2010-01-31T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:30:59","slug":"jetaa-chapter-beat-7-15-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/15\/jetaa-chapter-beat-7-15-09\/","title":{"rendered":"JETAA Chapter Beat 7.15.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Freelance writer\/editor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jonathantrace#h150-180\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Trace<\/a> <\/strong>(Fukuoka-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community for another edition of <strong><a href=\"..\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/jetaa-chapter-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Chapter Beat.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7406\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2791841254_dcc8642c36-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"2791841254_dcc8642c36\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2791841254_dcc8642c36-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2791841254_dcc8642c36.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaanc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Northern California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>East Bay Nomikai &#8211; <\/strong>Thursday, July 16th, 6:00 at Club Mallard in Albany. Drop by this month&#8217;s event for a drink, possibly followed by a karaoke nijikai.<\/li>\n<li><strong>18th Japanese Discussion Group &#8220;Taboo&#8221; &#8211; <\/strong>Saturday, July 18th, 3:00 at the Inner Sunset in San Francisco. The topic of this month&#8217;s discussion is &#8220;Health Care System in the US and Obama&#8217;s reform plan,&#8221; moderated by Shinya Yokota.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/want.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Western Australia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2009 JET Programme Pre-Departure Reception \u2013 <\/strong>Friday, July 17th, 6:00 at the Consulate General\u2019s residence. Catch up with old friends and bid the newbies a fond farewell at this year\u2019s reception. Space is limited so make your plans soon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaiwa \u2013 <\/strong>Thursday, July 16th and 30th, 5:30 at 43 Below. Practice your Japanese with old friends and some tasty snacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnw.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Pacific Northwest<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7405\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/welcom2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"welcom2\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/welcom2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/welcom2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seattle Bon Odori \u2013 <\/strong>July 18th and 19th, 4:00 to 10:00(Sunday 3:00 \u2013 9:00) at the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple. Dancing, martial arts, crafts, food and more. Don\u2019t miss it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer Picnic &#8211; <\/strong>Saturday, August 8th, 1:00 at the Mercer Island Luther Burbank Park. Semi-potluck(burgers and hot dogs provided) with prizes, puppet shows and games. Don&#8217;t miss it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>What happened at your chapter\u2019s event? <\/em><\/strong><em>If you attend(ed) any of these exciting events, JetWit would love to hear about them. Just email <strong>Jonathan Trace<\/strong> with any info, stories or comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freelance writer\/editor Jonathan Trace (Fukuoka-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community for another edition of JETAA Chapter Beat. JETAA Northern California East Bay Nomikai &#8211; Thursday, July 16th, 6:00 at Club Mallard in Albany. Drop by this month&#8217;s event for a drink, possibly followed by a karaoke nijikai. 18th Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[43,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapter-beat","category-jetaa-chapters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}