{"id":14,"date":"2011-01-11T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:42:52","slug":"kendo-appears-at-the-stoke-on-trent-centenary-celebrations-at-tunstall-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Features Kendo in \u201cWrestling\u2019s 101 Strangest Matches\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/101221_TheSun_100613_KN_tmb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"379\"><\/p>\n<h6>Oliver Hurley\u2019s book could hardly have been complete without this spectacular reference to Kendo!<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img style=\"border: 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/101221_101-Strangest-Matches_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h6>Fan, The_K_Juice, comments:<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cI remember this match. I guess I was 10 at the time and I totally believed it all, he was like a Jedi or something. I had nightmares about it for weeks!! I was lucky enough to meet Kendo a while back, of course, he didn\u2019t say anything but he understood exactly what I was saying, must have been his \u2018powers\u2019. What a legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/101221_TheSun_100613_KN_101-Strangest-Matches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"2114\"><\/p>\n<form><input type=\"button\" value=\"...back to the Kendo Nagasaki Blog...\" onclick=\"history.go(-1); return true;\"><\/form>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/?p=14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.facebook.com']);\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Hurley\u2019s book could hardly have been complete without this spectacular reference to Kendo! Fan, The_K_Juice, comments: \u201cI remember this match. I guess I was 10 at the time and I totally believed it all, he was like a Jedi or something. I had nightmares about it for weeks!! I was lucky enough to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}