{"id":20,"date":"2010-10-06T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-10-06T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:42:41","slug":"shorinji-kempo-first-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/archives\/20","title":{"rendered":"Shorinji Kempo, first session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my undergraduate career I found, for various reasons, that I was unwilling\/unable to take up some of the clubs etc that I wanted to. Now that I am in my postgraduate years (that still sounds weird!) I am looking forward to persuing a Martial Art, something I have wanted to do for a long time. I&#8217;ve chosen to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/~shkempo\/\">Shorinji Kempo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went to my first session last Thursday after looking them up online. Turns out they weren&#8217;t expecting freshers to that session, so I was the only newbie there. As it happens, I am very grateful for that circumstance. I got to meet the current students for longer and in more depth than I would have if my first session had been with the freshers. I especially liked meeting two of the other existing female members &#8211; one finishing her PhD and one starting. It was nice to have something in common.<\/p>\n<p>I then attended the first official session with the rest of the beginners. It was really fun and I&#8217;m looking forward to persuing this through my degree \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my undergraduate career I found, for various reasons, that I was unwilling\/unable to take up some of the clubs etc that I wanted to. Now that I am in my postgraduate years (that still sounds weird!) I am looking forward to persuing a Martial Art, something I have wanted to do for a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}