{"id":4686,"date":"2017-01-31T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/?p=4686\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:22:04","slug":"accepting-new-members-2017-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/news\/accepting-new-members-2017-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting new members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4264\" class=\"wp-image-4264 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Kaihoko-sensei surrounded by Shorinji Kempo practitioners.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unity-koshukai-sweden-2015-kaihoko-sensei-explain-kannuki.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaihoko-sensei instructing during one of our training camps.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now is an excellent time to start practicing Shorinji Kempo. We accept members from seven years old and upwards, including adults &#8211; no one is too old. So if you&#8217;re interested &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/contact\/\">let us know<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Shorinji Kempo, we don&#8217;t just practice an effective form of self defense, we also improve our endurance, coordination and strength. And let&#8217;s not forget, we have plenty of fun while doing it. Our\u00a0<em>shibu-ch\u014d<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; head instructor &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/instructors\/shibu-cho\/\">Anders Pettersson<\/a>, Sweden&#8217;s most accomplished Shorinji Kempo practitioner who has attained the sixth degree black belt, and has over 30 years of Shorinji Kempo experience.<\/p>\n<p>Curious? Questions? On the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/practice\/start-to-practice\/\">Start to practice<\/a>\u00a0you&#8217;ll find a lot of answers. See you in the dojo!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEYbB8OVWFw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is an excellent time to start practicing Shorinji Kempo. We accept members from seven years old and upwards, including adults &#8211; no one is too old. So if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}