{"id":13316,"date":"2009-01-23T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/23\/karate-testing.html"},"modified":"2009-01-23T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:11:17","slug":"karate_testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/23\/karate_testing.html","title":{"rendered":"Karate testing"},"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>I tested last night for 4th <em>kyu <\/em>&#8212; which will still be a purple belt, but &#8230; well, a high level purple belt . (Some schools either multiply the colors or add stripes, etc., to the belts; we don&#8217;t.) 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