{"id":34,"date":"2013-10-14T07:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2014-11-11T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:47:56","slug":"levels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/levels\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Judo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>The Gentle Way<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1157748_657417500935822_606214590_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1157748_657417500935822_606214590_n-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"1157748_657417500935822_606214590_n\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Judo (\u67d4\u9053, meaning \"gentle way\") is a modern <em><strong>Olympic sport<\/strong><\/em> created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano (\u5609\u7d0d\u6cbb\u4e94\u90ce). Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where <em><strong>the main objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nStrikes and thrusts\u00a0 by hands and feet as well as weapons <strong>are <em>not<\/em> allowed<\/strong> in judo competition or free practice (randori, \u4e71\u53d6\u308a), except only in pre-arranged forms (kata, \u578b.)\r\n\r\nOne of the main characteristics that sets judo apart is the practice of <em><strong>using an adversary\u2019s force against him or herself.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>From different sources.<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gentle Way Judo (\u67d4\u9053, meaning &#8220;gentle way&#8221;) is a modern Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano (\u5609\u7d0d\u6cbb\u4e94\u90ce). Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the main objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground. Strikes and thrusts\u00a0 by hands and feet as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oyarzun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}