{"id":333,"date":"2014-04-26T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-04-27T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:46:34","slug":"betas-karate-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Beta&#8217;s Karate Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-belt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334 size-full\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-belt.jpg\" alt=\"Beta with belt, excited by promotion\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beta forgets that belts go around the waist, not head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beta child has hit her first big karate milestone: graduating from a white belt to orange.<\/p>\n<p>Not much story for this one, just some photos that I snuck in when I wasn&#8217;t too busy watching.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-promoted students demonstrated their <em>kata<\/em> &#8211; the forms that they learn in class.\u00a0 The higher-level students (quite a few adults, older than me) looked choreographed in their moves &#8211; exact and synchronized.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed for the entire ceremony, simply thinking that it would be polite, and found the higher-degree demonstrations to be fascinating.\u00a0 The nunchacku was especially cool &#8211; Beta thought so too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-laugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335 size-large\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-laugh-1024x547.jpg\" alt=\"Beta child after promotion\" width=\"474\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-laugh-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-laugh-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140426-Bronwyn-karate-promotion-laugh.jpg 1764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beta lined up with the other recently-promoted kids from her class, and very obviously excited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beta child has hit her first big karate milestone: graduating from a white belt to orange. Not much story for this one, just some photos that I snuck in when I wasn&#8217;t too busy watching. The newly-promoted students demonstrated their kata &#8211; the forms that they learn in class.\u00a0 The higher-level students (quite a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beta&#8217;s Karate Promotion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-5n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}