{"id":1024,"date":"2010-07-20T00:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-07-20T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:14:18","slug":"sensei-rob-copeland-6th-dan-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Sensei Rob Copeland &#8211; 6th Dan Award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100_0967.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1025\" title=\"Cathy and Rob Copeland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100_0967-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100_0967-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100_0967.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Saturday 17th July 2010 is a day that Rob Copeland, Chief Instructor of Vale Karate (VOGKO), will long remember.<br \/>\nTo\u00a0mark his 50th Birthday, friends and family gathered in Barry to celebrate with Rob at a surprise party organised by his devoted wife, Cathy.\u00a0Rob was then left\u00a0truly stunned when a presentation was made to award him his 6th Dan.<br \/>\nNigel Taylor began\u00a0proceedings with a speech outlining Robs&#8217; \u00a0karate career to date, from competitor to coach. Rob was then presented with his 6th Dan Certificate in recognition of his services not only to Vale Karate but to Welsh Karate in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rob, and his Vale Karate group have been loyal friends and supporters of the Welsh Bushi-Kai ( and\u00a0of Shihan Ritchie Noblett) \u00a0for many years and\u00a0the Welsh Bushi-Kai would like to congratulate Rob on being awarded his 6th Dan, which was fully merited and\u00a0deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 17th July 2010 is a day that Rob Copeland, Chief Instructor of Vale Karate (VOGKO), will long remember. To\u00a0mark his 50th Birthday, friends and family gathered in Barry to celebrate with Rob at a surprise party organised by his devoted wife, Cathy.\u00a0Rob was then left\u00a0truly stunned when a presentation was made to award him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}