{"id":2377,"date":"2024-08-03T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:45:07","slug":"jasc-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2024\/jasc-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"JASC Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Simon Socolow and I am a rising junior (going to do WEPO next year). I&#8217;m a delegate to the 76th Japan America Student Conference (JASC). Info on it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/iscdc.org\/jasc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/iscdc.org\/jasc\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just left Tokyo from my internship (thanks asip!), although I&#8217;ll still need to do some work for it during the conference. I&#8217;ve already met some great friends and LA is an eye opening experience for me &#8211; someone who hasn&#8217;t lived in American cities. The USC people are all desensitized to the homeless\/drug\/violence stuff, and I guess I will be too at some point. But I think it&#8217;s very sad. But, the HI hostel we are staying in is great. I love hostels!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I did PII last year so this isn&#8217;t my first rodeo with Linen blogs. I hope I can write about what I&#8217;m learning at JASC and how it fits in with my experiences of Japan. Not sure how all these threads will come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Simon Socolow and I am a rising junior (going to do WEPO next year). I&#8217;m a delegate to the 76th Japan America Student Conference (JASC). Info on it here: https:\/\/iscdc.org\/jasc\/. I just left Tokyo from my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2024\/jasc-week-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}