{"id":247,"date":"2006-07-25T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/07\/25\/back-with-a-black-label\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:57:46","slug":"back-with-a-black-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/25\/back-with-a-black-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Back with a black label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short post to check in. I arrived back from Vienna this weekend. The week&#8217;s training was a lot of fun, very hot and quite successful. I managed to pass all my examinations which means I&#8217;m 2<sup>nd<\/sup> dan Takeda Ryu aikido now, and have received my assistants-license. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take that many photos, most of them after a day&#8217;s training, but there&#8217;s a few <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kaeru\/sets\/72157594210439982\/\">up at Flickr<\/a> now. Here&#8217;s my favourite shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaeru\/197336821\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dogi-hanging-to-dry-flickr-197336821-375x500.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Dogi hanging to dry\" class=\"wp-image-4286\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/74\/197336821_bafc59b2c4_m.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dogi-hanging-to-dry-flickr-197336821-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dogi-hanging-to-dry-flickr-197336821-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/dogi-hanging-to-dry-flickr-197336821.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short post to check in. I arrived back from Vienna this weekend. The week&#8217;s training was a lot of fun, very hot and quite successful. I managed to pass all my examinations which means I&#8217;m 2nd dan Takeda Ryu aikido now, and have received my assistants-license. Huzzah! I didn&#8217;t take that many photos, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/25\/back-with-a-black-label\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back with a black label<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[161,160,44,157],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-martial-arts","tag-takeda-ryu","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}