{"id":10423,"date":"2015-12-09T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:06:12","slug":"100366-indomitable-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/12\/09\/100366-indomitable-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"100\/366: Indomitable Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2015\/12\/07\/098366-little-dragon\/\">noted a couple of days ago<\/a>, this was a big martial arts week at Chateau Steelypips, with The Pip&#8217;s first-ever belt test on Monday, and SteelyKid testing for her brown belt tonight. Unfortunately, tonight was also a first, namely the first belt test she&#8217;s failed.<\/p>\n<p>This was, sadly, entirely predictable, as her teacher has really tightened the requirements for tests of late, and said a while back that they would be required to do not only the form for the belt they were testing for, but the previous belt, as well. And I&#8217;ve been trying for three days to get her to run through the red-belt form to refresh her memory. But she refused, and paid the price.<\/p>\n<p>She did, however, bounce back pretty well and broke two (really thin) boards with a jumping back kick:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kHYjRHY9vY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s hear it for indomitable spirit. Also, I got this nice shot of her during one of the earlier stages of the test:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10424\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/12\/sm_steelykid_red_belt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/12\/sm_steelykid_red_belt.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid doing punches at her belt test.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sm_steelykid_red_belt.jpg 400w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sm_steelykid_red_belt-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid doing punches at her belt test.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the latest from here. A programming note, now: we&#8217;re heading to Florida for a few days, leaving absurdly early tomorrow morning. I&#8217;ll be taking the camera, of course, and will be taking pictures, but I can&#8217;t swear I&#8217;ll have time to edit and post them. In which case you may get a giant photo dump next week when we&#8217;re back. You&#8217;ll just have to wait and see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted a couple of days ago, this was a big martial arts week at Chateau Steelypips, with The Pip&#8217;s first-ever belt test on Monday, and SteelyKid testing for her brown belt tonight. Unfortunately, tonight was also a first, namely the first belt test she&#8217;s failed. This was, sadly, entirely predictable, as her teacher has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/12\/09\/100366-indomitable-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100\/366: Indomitable Spirit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,27,3,685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-sports","category-steelykid","category-taekwondo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}