{"id":1239,"date":"2011-03-17T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2011-03-21T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T23:32:37","slug":"for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/for-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"For Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the news on Japan somewhat obsessively over the last week.  In theory, I&#8217;m supposed to be heading over there for a book research trip in three weeks.  In reality, well, I am waiting and seeing, and hoping more for the locals&#8217; sake than my own that the situation starts improving soon, as I&#8217;m sure many of you are too.<\/p>\n<p>Want to help?  <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/1rick\/japan-quake-how-can-i-help\">Here&#8217;s a list of sites where you can donate directly, by country.<\/a>  You can also contribute while potentially winning some rather awesome prizes by bidding on <a href=\"http:\/\/authorsforjapan.wordpress.com\/\">the many book and writing related prizes at Authors for Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/badge_redhelp.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The most useful news sites I&#8217;ve found are <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">The Lede via The New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/134454848\/earthquake-off-japan-coast-unleashes-tsunami\">the NPR&#8217;s coverage (including live blogs)<\/a>, both of which are updated frequently with the latest bits of news, though not always the same news, which is why I&#8217;ve been watching both.  The Lede also has a live stream from a Japanese news source, with English translation.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone over there, or with friends or family in the country, may you and they stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the news on Japan somewhat obsessively over the last week. In theory, I&#8217;m supposed to be heading over there for a book research trip in three weeks. In reality, well, I am waiting and seeing, and hoping &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/for-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}