{"id":1885,"date":"2008-05-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?guid=28fdc4320d05dd238c49b48676173a7e"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:20","slug":"im-so-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/im-so-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m so Blue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_x9vVydhastU\/SEFdBuG6sJI\/AAAAAAAAAPo\/xFHNT6aG8Z4\/s1600-h\/blue+belt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206544928355299474\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_x9vVydhastU\/SEFdBuG6sJI\/AAAAAAAAAPo\/xFHNT6aG8Z4\/s320\/blue+belt.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Well not really me but my belt is &#8211; Blue that is! I have finally attended Karate class enough that I felt I was ready to take my next belt test. Now for some this may not seem like a big achievement but the fact is my wife and daughter earned their belts MONTHS ago and I have been feeling a bit &#8220;left behind&#8221; for lack of a better phrase.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was unsure if I was going to make it to class due to a really bad headache (borderline migraine) but with the help of several liquid gels and lots of water I overcame the pain and went to class.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was informed by my Sensei that he didn&#8217;t go easy on my scoring so I was very pleased when he informed me that I passed!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The girls are almost ready for their next test (purple) so I have some catching up to do, or better yet another goal to reach.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is a link to a past post on our Karate Club Website on the meaning of the the blue belt.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=200\">The Meaning of the Blue Belt (5th Kyu)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_x9vVydhastU\/SEFckeG6sII\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/lYMF1EWFPK4\/s1600-h\/blue+belt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206544425844125826\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_x9vVydhastU\/SEFckeG6sII\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/lYMF1EWFPK4\/s320\/blue+belt.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really me but my belt is &#8211; Blue that is! I have finally attended Karate class enough that I felt I was ready to take my next belt test. Now for some this may not seem like a big achievement but the fact is my wife and daughter earned their bel&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/im-so-blue\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-karate","category-training-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","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\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}