{"id":21,"date":"2008-12-23T07:04:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-12-23T07:04:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:04:37","slug":"rank-versus-skill-by-salvatore-forestieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rank Versus Skill&#8221; by Salvatore Forestieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Check the article below. It is very interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the martial arts we all strive for a purpose. \u00c2\u00a0Some of us may have multiple purposes, but in general most of us strive for physical and mental development through shugyo. \u00c2\u00a0Some individuals might want to develop a certain skill level; others are more concerned with rank &#8211; especially the untrained newcomer. \u00c2\u00a0In a recent situation that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure many will recognize, an individual walked into our dojo after contacting me previously on numerous occasions. \u00c2\u00a0Almost immediately on arriving, he asked me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how long would it take me to get a black belt?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00c2\u00a0I chuckled and replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 around 2-3 days for an average one and about 7-10 days for a really nice one from Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00c2\u00a0After he looked at me quizzically for a few moments, I explained the joke to him. \u00c2\u00a0Fortunately he chuckled and the ice was broken.<br \/>\nRead the whole entry:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidojournal.com\/blog\/rank-versus-skill-by-salvatore-forestieri\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aikidojournal.com\/blog\/rank-versus-skill-by-salvatore-forestieri\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check the article below. It is very interesting. In the martial arts we all strive for a purpose. \u00c2\u00a0Some of us may have multiple purposes, but in general most of us strive for physical and mental development through shugyo. \u00c2\u00a0Some individuals might want to develop a certain skill level; others are more concerned with rank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Rank Versus Skill&#8221; by Salvatore Forestieri&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sensei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}