{"id":492,"date":"2013-04-11T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:28:38","slug":"new-5th-kyu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"New 5th Kyu Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While testing is not the main focus of our dojo, or Aikido, it is always nice when people pass their rank tests. It&#8217;s a nice time from students to see where they are on their Aikido journey, and usually the preparation for the exam improves their practice a lot.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2013 we had three students take and pass their 5th kyu test, which is great! So congratulations to Robert, Minh, and Abu.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in April, Damon passed his 4th kyu test. We are very proud of him!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone just keep practicing. It&#8217;s all about the practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While testing is not the main focus of our dojo, or Aikido, it is always nice when people pass their rank tests. It&#8217;s a nice time from students to see where they are on their Aikido journey, and usually the preparation for the exam improves their practice a lot. In March 2013 we had three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/?p=492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New 5th Kyu Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dojo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planoaikido.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}