{"id":220,"date":"2010-09-06T02:57:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-09-12T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:30:09","slug":"karate-girls-of-babuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Karate Girls of Babuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0713-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"116_0713\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0713-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0713-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They yelled, they kicked, they palm striked.  They yelled even when they didn&#8217;t have to.  They correctly identified a good fighting stance.  They hopped (or tried to).  And I just about fell over when all three lines (there were 26 girls squeezed into that little dirt alley) punched and kiai-ed in unison as I counted in Japanese.  They even counted along in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0606-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"116_0606\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0606-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0606-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there was the giving of the certificates.  I would sign at the top and date it, and then I would write the girl&#8217;s name down at the bottom and draw a line for them to sign on.  Each girl signed her own name, and then I would hand the certificate to her and say, &#8220;Thank you for being in my karate class.&#8221;  At first, I don&#8217;t think they really got it, and just looked at the piece of paper kind of quizzically.  But as word got around about what the paper was and what I was saying, the smiles were very big at the acceptance of that paper.  I think Rinku, aka Silent One, had the biggest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0754.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0754-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"116_0754\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0754-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/2010\/09\/116_0754-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so it is my honor to present the Graduation of the Karate Girls of Babuan, Class of 2010:<\/p>\n<p>Nilam, Rani, Poonam, Aarti, Puja, Aarti II, Kanchan, Gunjan, Asha, Kajal, Archana, Seema, Sahdna, Preety, Manisha, Rupa, Chadhani, Neha, Punahm, Baby, Rinku, Asha II, Ranju, Rupa, Hina, Babita, Manju, Micky, and Ritu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They yelled, they kicked, they palm striked. They yelled even when they didn&#8217;t have to. They correctly identified a good fighting stance. They hopped (or tried to). And I just about fell over when all three lines (there were 26 girls squeezed into that little dirt alley) punched and kiai-ed in unison as I counted [&hellip;]<\/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-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}