{"id":9531,"date":"2009-11-29T23:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9531"},"modified":"2009-11-30T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:02:22","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-11-29-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/jetwit-blog-beat-11-29-09\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat 11.29.09"},"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 now works in online marketing in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend and that you’re all enjoying autumn. Let’s take a peek at what our favorite JET bloggers have been posting lately.<\/p>\n

JET alum Suzanne Kamata<\/strong><\/a> (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90)<\/strong> at Gaijin Mama<\/a> shares a decidedly Japanese first<\/a> in twenty one years of living in Japan, as well as an eye opening take on a day with a wheelchair in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kevin Kajitani<\/a> (Kyogo-ken, 2006-07)<\/strong> over at iSpeakJapanese<\/a> has moved to Japan \u2013 check out the first video from his new home here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

JET alum Lars Martinson<\/a> finishes up his series on the beauty of East Asian calligraphy. Check out part one<\/a> and part two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s another delici\"4098807470_f29b12a88a\"<\/a>ous recipe derived from a productive bout of insomnia from Elizabeth White<\/a> (Toyama-ken, 1995-98)<\/strong>, adventure writer.<\/p>\n

Just in time for the holidays – JET alum Chen Reichert<\/a><\/strong> has new holiday cards at botodesigns<\/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 now works in online marketing in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the city. Hope everyone had […]<\/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":[7,12,70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cartoonillustration","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