{"id":705,"date":"2007-10-27T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/10\/nova-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T12:43:19","slug":"nova-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/10\/27\/nova-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/nova-is-in-trou.html#comments\">my hunch<\/a>, that I wrote about in February of 2006, was correct. Nova, one of the big 3 eikaiwa (English conversation school) chains in Japan, has closed its doors to students and employees alike. How much does that suck for everyone?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article2748901.ece\">link<\/a><br \/>\nIf you are looking to join a much better program (better pay, benefits, and quality of candidates- the only real con is that there is much less flexibility as to where you are stationed), check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetprogramme.org\/\">JET<\/a>, which will be accepting applications up until December 3rd, I think, for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that my hunch, that I wrote about in February of 2006, was correct. Nova, one of the big 3 eikaiwa (English conversation school) chains in Japan, has closed its doors to students and employees alike. How much does that suck for everyone? link If you are looking to join a much better &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/10\/27\/nova-is-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}