{"id":329,"date":"2014-02-25T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2014-02-25T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:51:33","slug":"announcement-chinese-new-year-success-achievement-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Announcement:  Chinese New Year Success &#038; Achievement Announcements!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the footsteps of the Tsuruoka Karate founder, the Tsuruoka NL family started a tradition last year that is somewhat similar to\u00a0<a title=\"Kagami Biraki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kagami_biraki\" target=\"_blank\">Kagami biraki<\/a> (\u00a0traditional ceremony which literally translates to &#8220;Opening the Mirror&#8221;). \u00a0However, following his own Chinese heritage, Sempai Au has also equated it to the Chinese New Year. \u00a0It is a celebration for all the students and families to come together to enjoy great food, and even greater company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p>Again this year, Sempai, and his wife Cindy spent tireless hours over the weekend preparing food for approximately 90 people, and as I am sure everyone will agree, it was a huge success yet again. \u00a0A special thank you to Randy Carew for your assistance Saturday evening, as the additional set of hands helped ease the workload. \u00a0Everyone gathered at the dojo on Sunday evening for a great meal, to which no one walked away hungry. \u00a0To everyone that showed up, and assisted in anyway, a big thank you! \u00a0We hope to continue the tradition every year.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal, Sempai announced that two students traveled to Toronto this past fall for grading, and he was pleased to announce the results. \u00a0Congrats to Bernie Noseworthy on your achievement of 4th dan, and to Alex Lawlor, on his achievement of dan (black belt). \u00a0The entire Tsuruoka NL Family is proud of your hard work and dedication to the club, and the sport!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_330\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330 \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0639-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0639-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0639-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0639-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Lawlor (dan) and Bernie Noseworthy (4th dan)!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the footsteps of the Tsuruoka Karate founder, the Tsuruoka NL family started a tradition last year that is somewhat similar to\u00a0Kagami biraki (\u00a0traditional ceremony which literally translates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}