{"id":1885,"date":"2008-01-27T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2008-01-27T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:16:00","slug":"judo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Judo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up at 6 this morning to take <lj user=redmed> to the airport, down in Rhode Island.  Then turned around and drove almost that far back north to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pedrosmartialarts.com\/\">Pedro&#8217;s Martial Arts<\/a> for a judo tournament.  I entered two divisions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Masters&#8221; &#8211; 30 and up, open.  We jokingly referred to ourselves as the &#8220;geritol&#8221; division.  I took DFL (from a field of 4)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seniors&#8221; &#8211; 18 and up, novice, with a nice small weight class of four.  I won zero of my matches.  On the other hand, I did get props from the crowd for toughing through a nasty lapel strangle to drag the guy out of bounds.  The idea was that I would get (at most) a small penalty for retreating &#8230; rather than getting choked out and losing the match (not to mention consciousness). <\/p>\n<p>No serious injuries, although I do have a bruise on my neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up at 6 this morning to take to the airport, down in Rhode Island. Then turned around and drove almost that far back north to Pedro&#8217;s Martial Arts for a judo tournament. I entered two divisions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Masters&#8221; &#8211; 30 and up, open. We jokingly referred to ourselves as the &#8220;geritol&#8221; division. I took DFL <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1885\">Judo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}