{"id":4129,"date":"2010-09-13T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2010-09-13T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T06:00:31","slug":"my-next-door-neighbor-is-a-black-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"My next door neighbor is a black belt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent some time at Storables getting some racks for the new laundry room, but the more unique thing I did was watch my next door neighbor testing for his black belt in Aikido. He did pretty darn well from my perspective and I heard the testers gave him pretty positive feedback as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on going to Japan with my mom and my sister again this fall, and we&#8217;re trying to decide whether to skip Tokyo and stick to Western Japan. I was never a big fan of Tokyo, but it&#8217;s actually fun to visit as well. I guess if we fly into the Kansai International airport (which I&#8217;ve actually never been to) we can avoid a long train ride. But that also means we miss seeing some friends in Tokyo and I can&#8217;t make my yearly pilgrimage to Akihabara Electric Town. What to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent some time at Storables getting some racks for the new laundry room, but the more unique thing I did was watch my next door neighbor testing for his black belt in Aikido. He did pretty darn well from my perspective and I heard the testers gave him pretty positive feedback as well. I&#8217;m planning on going to Japan with my mom and my sister again this fall, and we&#8217;re trying to decide whether to skip Tokyo and stick to Western Japan. I was never a big fan of Tokyo, but it&#8217;s actually fun to visit as well. I guess if we fly into the Kansai International airport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My next door neighbor is a black belt.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}