{"id":17188,"date":"2023-01-17T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:17:05","slug":"blog-biz-happy-new-year-and-debito-orgs-relative-inactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17188","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER, JAN 17, 2023: Happy New Year! And Debito.org’s relative inactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. I know it’s a couple of weeks in, but Happy New Year! May all Debito.org Readers feel safe and happy, and professionally secure and fulfilled in 2023!<\/p>\n

I’ll classify this as one of my Debito.org Newsletters, since I haven’t put one up on Debito.org for a few months.<\/p>\n

As regular Readers know, the second half of 2022<\/a> was particularly quiet for me as a blogger. \u00a0Not as an author, of course, as I still put out my regular monthly Shingetsu News Agency “Visible Minorities” Columns<\/a>. And not as a professional, as I have been employed full time in recent semesters with six classes teaching hundreds of students Political Science. \u00a0All of my energies have been going towards crafting lectures and powerpoints, grading, and lecturing. \u00a0Last semester alone, despite Covid, I held 210 in-person classes, and enjoyed every minute of them. \u00a0I love teaching. \u00a0It’s probably as much my calling as writing and research.<\/p>\n

That is why blogging here on Debito.org has taken a back seat as of late. \u00a0Also, my teaching involves Japan a lot less, as I’m teaching courses on other governmental systems, and reminding myself that it’s a big, complex world out there with lots to talk about. \u00a0Many times the things on my mind aren’t something I see as materiel for this blog, so I’ve had trouble getting my writing mojo going.<\/p>\n

(But if my thoughts on issues that aren’t necessarily Japan-specific are also of interest to Debito.org Readers, please let me know as such in the Comments section below<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

But one thing that makes me thankful: \u00a0Debito.org Readers are still thinking about the issues long discussed here, and are carrying on the conversation even if I’m busy elsewhere. \u00a0You can see their comments both under my posts and under the Debito.org Newsletters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thank you everyone for keeping the torch lit. \u00a0I’ll try to do better but I can’t promise. \u00a0I’m teaching another six classes this semester, and anticipating enjoying it just as much as ever.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for reading Debito.org. \u00a0Sincerely, Debito<\/p>\n

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As regular Readers know, the second half of 2022 was particularly quiet for me as a blogger. \u00a0Not as an author, of course, as I still put out my regular monthly Shingetsu News Agency “Visible Minorities” Columns. And not as a professional, as I have been employed full time in recent semesters with six classes teaching hundreds of students Political Science. \u00a0All of my energies have been going towards crafting lectures and powerpoints, grading, and lecturing. \u00a0Last semester alone, despite Covid, I held 210 in-person classes, and enjoyed every minute of them. \u00a0I love teaching. \u00a0It’s probably as much my calling as writing and research.<\/p>\n

That is why blogging here on Debito.org has taken a back seat as of late. \u00a0Also, my teaching involves Japan a lot less, as I’m teaching courses on other governmental systems, and reminding myself that it’s a big, complex world out there with lots to talk about. \u00a0Many times the things on my mind aren’t something I see as materiel for this blog, so I’ve had trouble getting my writing mojo going.<\/p>\n

(But if my thoughts on issues that aren’t necessarily Japan-specific are also of interest to Debito.org Readers, please let me know as such in the Comments section below.)<\/p>\n

But one thing that makes me thankful: \u00a0Debito.org Readers are still thinking about the issues long discussed here, and are carrying on the conversation even if I’m busy elsewhere. \u00a0You can see their comments both under my posts and under the Debito.org Newsletters.<\/p>\n

Thank you everyone for keeping the torch lit. \u00a0I’ll try to do better but I can’t promise. \u00a0I’m teaching another six classes this semester, and anticipating enjoying it just as much as ever. Thank you all for reading Debito.org!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debitoorg-website-updates","category-education","category-newsletters","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17196,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions\/17196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}