{"id":177,"date":"2006-02-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2022-01-29T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:30:31","slug":"to-funny-to-pass-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/to-funny-to-pass-up\/","title":{"rendered":"To Funny to Pass up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 45%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20060205-karate_bird.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2468 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I had to post this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060205\/NEWS\/602050366\/1002\/NEWS01\">from WELLINGTON, New Zealand<\/a><br>Organizers of a vintage car rally reportedly have hired karate experts to protect the vehicles from marauding native parrots. About 40 members of a local karate club have been enlisted to protect the 140 classic cars due to visit an alpine village near Mt. Cook on New Zealand&#8217;s South Island on Sunday, the New Zealand Press Association reported Friday. Local wildlife ranger Ray Bellringer said the karate experts were unlikely to deter the Keas. &#8220;They will fly around and laugh,&#8221; he said.  I hear the birds are sending in their best parrots!?! Shouldn&#8217;t they be using experts in the crane style?! The kicks will be flying high at this event\u2026o.k., o.k., enough with the bad jokes! If anyone should happen to get pictures of this please send them in!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to post this\u2026 from WELLINGTON, New ZealandOrganizers of a vintage car rally reportedly have hired karate experts to protect the vehicles from marauding native parrots. About 40 members of a local karate club have been enlisted to protect the 140 classic cars due to visit an alpine village near Mt. Cook on New<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/to-funny-to-pass-up\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","tag-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}