{"id":17728,"date":"2009-11-12T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/way-of-the-sword-kendo-tournament-comes-to-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:00:39","slug":"way-of-the-sword-kendo-tournament-comes-to-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/way-of-the-sword-kendo-tournament-comes-to-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Way of the sword: Kendo tournament comes to Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came in their keiko-gi (tunics), hakama (pants) and their bogu (armor.)<\/p>\n<p>They swung their shinai (swords) with fervor, shouting with great kiai (spirit).<\/p>\n<p>So passed Nov. 7 at the Kent Commons, the epicenter of the annual Kent Kendo Club Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 competitors from across the state participated, demonstrating their prowess, as well as their respect, to this  traditional Japanese martial art.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent Kendo Club practices out of the Kent Commons on a regular basis. For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendo-pnw.org\/kent.htm\">www.kendo-pnw.org\/kent.htm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came in their keiko-gi (tunics), hakama (pants) and their bogu (armor.)<br \/>\nThey swung their shinai (swords) with fervor, shouting with great kiai (spirit).<br \/>\nSo passed Nov. 17 at the Kent Commons, the epicenter of the annual Kent Kendo Club Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":17729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17728"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}