{"id":511,"date":"2014-10-10T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-10-12T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:37:31","slug":"osensei-masami-tsuruoka-jan-1929-oct-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Sensei Masami Tsuruoka (Jan 1929 &#8211; Oct 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tsuruoka Sensei\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051-624x939.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0051.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In it with great sadness that Tsuruoka NL announces the passing of our founder, O&#8217;Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, today, October 10, 2014 in his 85th year. \u00a0Long known as \u201c<strong>the father of Canadian karate&#8221;<\/strong>,\u00a0he spent his life teaching and mentoring students across Canada, and around the world. \u00a0His dedication and loyalty to the art was second to none. \u00a0As many students can attest, they felt like they were part of one big family, and his passing has had an affect on us all.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the entire Tsuruoka NL family, our deepest condolences go out to David Tsuruoka and the Tsuruoka family. \u00a0May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolences can be sent to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:osensei@tsuruokakarate.com\" target=\"_blank\">osensei@tsuruokakarate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In it with great sadness that Tsuruoka NL announces the passing of our founder, O&#8217;Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, today, October 10, 2014 in his 85th year. \u00a0Long known as \u201cthe father [&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-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuruokanl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}