{"id":14091,"date":"2015-10-21T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=14091"},"modified":"2015-10-21T20:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:18:41","slug":"bluewhite-belt-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=14091","title":{"rendered":"Blue\/white belt! (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lex finally got his belt test tonight. \u00a0They took him from the\u00a0regular lesson and brought him into the small dojo for a private belt test. \u00a0I really appreciate how understanding they are and how willing they are to work with the kids. \u00a0Lex was so disappointed that <a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=14008\">he missed the belt test two weeks ago<\/a> and he was worried he&#8217;d have to wait for the next one. \u00a0 It was so nice of them to do this private one for him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-20151021_171723_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"20151021_171723_HDR.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-20151021_171723_hdr.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">They invited me in to watch. Lex did great. He was worried that he was rusty on a few of the katas, but he did them well anyway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He rejoined the class after the test and at the end of class they gave him his new belt while everyone watched.  There was lots of cheering.  Sensei said that to earn a striped belt you need to demonstrate that you know all of the moves for all of the katas up to that belt, and to earn a solid you need to know them solidly with sharp movements and defined motions.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-1445473505849.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"wp-1445473505849\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-1445473505849.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love this picture because it looks like Eve is cheering for him. I don&#8217;t know if she was or if she was just jumping around (I was focused on him at this moment), but in the picture she looks like she&#8217;s giving him a big hooray! :)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-1445473511230.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"wp-1445473511230\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-1445473511230.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funny angle and zoomed. There were so many kids in the group today that I couldn&#8217;t get a good shot. Oh well. He&#8217;s got a blue belt with a white stripe now and a huge smile!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex finally got his belt test tonight. \u00a0They took him from the\u00a0regular lesson and brought him into the small dojo for a private belt test. \u00a0I really appreciate how understanding they are and how willing they are to work with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=14091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,20],"class_list":["post-14091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-karate","tag-lex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14095,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}