{"id":8757,"date":"2009-10-12T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2009-10-12T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:24:05","slug":"jetwit-blogbeat-10-11-09-by-crystal-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/12\/jetwit-blogbeat-10-11-09-by-crystal-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit BlogBeat 10.11.09 by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"

JetWit Blog Beat<\/em><\/span><\/strong> by <\/em>Crystal Wong<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Iwate-ken, 2002-04)<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Crystal is a former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She is now working as a freelance strategist and writer in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy October, everyone. It’s been awhile, so let’s take a look and make sure you have a chance to catch up on some posts you might’ve missed in September:<\/p>\n

Interesting post<\/a> from Suzanne Kamata<\/strong><\/a> (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90)<\/strong> over at Gaijin Mama<\/a> about her son’s Japanese education – this should be enlightening for former JETs since we’ve had a chance to work on the other side of the teaching equation, but likely never had a chance to interact with parents.<\/p>\n

Over at Chin Music Press<\/a>, exciting things are happening as they get set to ship their latest<\/a> publication. The book will literally be hot off the presses shortly, so be sure to check back for updates!<\/p>\n

James Kennedy<\/a><\/strong> (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong> visits his teen fans at the Schaumburg Library, and it looks like some funny stuff went down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We also covered JET alum Janice Momoko Chow<\/a> (Saitama, 2005-2006) <\/span><\/strong>here a few posts back, and wanted to make sure that you all knew about her recent blog move to this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you’re looking for a culinary reason to celebrate autumn while conveniently warding off any pesky autumn germs all at the same time, Elizabeth White<\/strong><\/a> (Toyama-ken, 1995-98)<\/strong> has the recipe<\/a> for you. Looks delicious! \"Spicy+Chicken+Soup\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She is now working as a freelance strategist and writer in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,40,70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-food-drink","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t