{"id":9522,"date":"2009-11-29T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2009-11-29T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:10:19","slug":"volunteer-opportunity-sakura-matsuri-50th-anniversary-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/volunteer-opportunity-sakura-matsuri-50th-anniversary-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Opportunity:  Sakura Matsuri 50th Anniversary (D.C.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7379\" title=\"jetaadc\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jetaadc.jpg\" alt=\"jetaadc\" width=\"177\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jetaadc.jpg 421w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jetaadc-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/>Via <strong>Marc Hitzig (Niigata-ken, 1992-95)<\/strong> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/dc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.<\/strong><\/a> is seeking volunteers to help with the planning of their 50th Anniversary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/dc\/sakura.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Matsuri<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear JETs &amp; Friends of JET (FOJs),<\/p>\n<p>Next year marks the 50th Anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/dc\/sakura.php\" target=\"_blank\">Japan-America Society\u2019s Sakura Matsuri<\/a> \u2013 Japanese Street Festival to be held <span id=\"lw_1259496081_7\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">on Saturday, April 10, 2010<\/span>.\u00a0 We have already started to prepare for the largest Japanese street festival outside of <span id=\"lw_1259496081_8\">Japan<\/span>. We are looking for people who are interested in helping us make it all happen and willing to commit a little time for us.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is broken up into different committees led by a Committee Chair.\u00a0 We have several Committees that still have Sub-chair positions that need to be filled.\u00a0 Sub-chairs work under the Committee Chair to facilitate any help they need before or during the festival.<\/p>\n<p>If you have experience in event planning or like taking managerial roles, please contact Marc Hitzig (<a title=\"mhitzig%40us-japan.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com\/dc\/mhitzig%40us-japan.org\" target=\"_blank\">mhitzig [at] us-japan. org<\/a>) or Ms. Nobu Iwata (<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:iwata%40us-japan.org\" target=\"_blank\">iwata [at] us-japan. org<\/a>) at JASW for more information.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in volunteering and getting involved but cannot commit the time to become a sub-chair, we still need many people to help us on the day of the festival!\u00a0 We will start recruiting for \u201cDay-of volunteers\u201d in December.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nMarc Hitzig (Niigata-ken, 1992-95<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Marc Hitzig (Niigata-ken, 1992-95) of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C. is seeking volunteers to help with the planning of their 50th Anniversary Sakura Matsuri: Dear JETs &amp; Friends of JET (FOJs), Next year marks the 50th Anniversary of Japan-America Society\u2019s Sakura Matsuri \u2013 Japanese Street Festival to be held on Saturday, April 10, [&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":[53,102,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japan-society-round-up","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","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=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9523,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}