{"id":205,"date":"2009-07-18T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=205&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2009-07-18T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T11:51:02","slug":"chicken-dance-at-wakasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/alaska\/chicken-dance-at-wakasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Dance at Wakasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared on Page 26 of the Hokkaido Newspaper today, July 18th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wakasashimbunblog.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Dance at Wakasa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saroma Town:<\/p>\n<p>On the 16th, three students visiting from Saroma&#8217;s sister city, Palmer, Alaska, USA, deepened cultural understanding with the children at Wakasa Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>The link between the town and the City of Palmer began in 1980.\u00a0 Every year, junior and senior high school students undertake reciprocal visits.\u00a0 Those visiting currently are Rebecca Farley (13), Dena Christiansen (14), and Erin Vincent (14).\u00a0 From the 14th to the 27th, while experiencing homestays, they will be attending Saroma Junior High School and sightseeing around Hokkaido.<\/p>\n<p>On their visit to Wakasa Elementary, they accompanied the town AET (Assistant English Teacher) Sean Holland (25).\u00a0 They shared popular American dances such as the &#8220;Chicken Dance&#8221; with the students, and experienced cultural exchange through mutual self-introductions in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared on Page 26 of the Hokkaido Newspaper today, July 18th. Saroma Town: On the 16th, three students visiting from Saroma&#8217;s sister city, Palmer, Alaska, USA, deepened cultural understanding with the children at Wakasa Elementary. The link between the town and the City of Palmer began in 1980.\u00a0 Every year, junior and senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-elementary","category-english","category-saroma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}