{"id":3224,"date":"2023-12-11T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:37:31","slug":"paul-james-6th-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Paul James 6th Dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the WBK Development Tournament held on Dec 3rd,\u00a0 I had the privilege on behalf of the WBK Executive Committee to award Paul James his well deserved 6th Dan.<br \/>\nPaul achieved his 1st Dan under our founder, Ritchie Noblett, 28 years ago to the date, making today even more important to mark this accolade. Paul is an outstanding karate-ka in all its aspects. Many of us have had the pleasure to compete against and alongside him on the tatami, with some very memorable scraps over the years.<br \/>\nPaul is an amazing coach and even better person! Thank you for all these years of supporting the WBK and the ever growing friendship we have.<br \/>\nCongratulations once again Paul and to everyone at Broadwell Karate<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Hopkins<br \/>\nWBK Chairman<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_1702297173724-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_1702297173724-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_1702297173724-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_1702297173724-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_1702297173724.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the WBK Development Tournament held on Dec 3rd,\u00a0 I had the privilege on behalf of the WBK Executive Committee to award Paul James his well deserved 6th Dan. Paul achieved his 1st Dan under our founder, Ritchie Noblett, 28 years ago to the date, making today even more important to mark this accolade. Paul [&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\/3224"}],"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=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}