{"id":2382,"date":"2016-05-05T17:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2016-05-05T17:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T16:48:59","slug":"sifu-steve-babbs-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Sifu Steve Babbs R.I.P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WelshBushi-Kai would like to offer our condolences to the family and friends of Sifu Steve Babbs, who has sadly passed away.<br \/>\nSteve was a long time friend and supporter of our Association and of Shihan Ritchie Noblett and will be sorely missed throughout the Martial Arts world,<br \/>\nSteve was an exceptionally gifted fighter who inspired a generation of fighters through his abilities as a Lau Gar, Kung Fu \u00a0exponent and as a pioneer and Champion in British KickBoxing.<br \/>\nA mighty and fierce competitor on the mats or in the ring, a gentleman outside the arena.<br \/>\nBritish Martial Arts has lost one of its finest &#8230;&#8230;. R.I.P Steve<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FB_IMG_1461845258838.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FB_IMG_1461845258838.jpg\" alt=\"FB_IMG_1461845258838\" width=\"486\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FB_IMG_1461845258838.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FB_IMG_1461845258838-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WelshBushi-Kai would like to offer our condolences to the family and friends of Sifu Steve Babbs, who has sadly passed away. Steve was a long time friend and supporter of our Association and of Shihan Ritchie Noblett and will be sorely missed throughout the Martial Arts world, Steve was an exceptionally gifted fighter who [&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\/2382"}],"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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}