{"id":11776,"date":"2008-02-04T20:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/04\/orange-is-the-new-white.html"},"modified":"2008-02-04T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:50:51","slug":"orange_is_the_new_white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/orange_is_the_new_white.html","title":{"rendered":"Orange is the new White"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ISKF Mountain States logo\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/iskf-rockymtns-tiger.gif\" width=\"120\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Went to karate tonight instead of tomorrow, since tomorrow I&#8217;ll off at the Caucus (woo-hoo). I usually go to the Tue\/Thu adult class at Lone Tree, but there&#8217;s a parallel Mon\/Wed class, and Sensei doesn&#8217;t care which you go to (as long as you don&#8217;t go to more sessions per week than you signed up for).<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Mon\/Wed class turns out to be a bit smaller than my usual one. And, um, more homogenous. Four black belts. Six brown belts. Four purple belts. And, way down at the end, looking terribly noobish &#8230;one orange belt. Tonight, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to karate tonight instead of tomorrow, since tomorrow I&#8217;ll off at the Caucus (woo-hoo). I usually go to the Tue\/Thu adult class at Lone Tree, but there&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10342,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/karate_kid_dad.html","url_meta":{"origin":11776,"position":0},"title":"Karate Kid Dad","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Feb-07 9:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Made it to my (woo-hoo!) second karate class tonight, having cunningly arranged to be out of town on business last week. 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