{"id":1213,"date":"2016-06-09T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:36:06","slug":"kings-of-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Kings of Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbZTEnECLrY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Birankai North America Summer Camp is here! Amazing weather, a beautiful campus and dynamic training here at St. John\u2019s University in Queens, N.Y. Day One got camp off to a great start with Patti Lyons Sensei of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckscountyaikido.com\/\">Bucks County Aikido <\/a>leading an action-packed class. Good thing the dojo is air-conditioned\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Make sure to check the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCipdlAvTmLI8yVJkf1ihUOA\"> BiranOnline channel on Youtube <\/a>for new videos as camp continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">A reminder to Birankai members at camp to pick up their new copies of <em>Biran<\/em>, our organization&#8217;s print newsletter. This summer\u2019s issue features, among other great articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Archie Champion Sensei on ukemi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">George Lyons Sensei on testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Yoko Okamoto Sensei on the three teachers who shaped her Aikido<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Liese Klein Sensei on our connection to Hombu Dojo in Tokyo<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Sarah Kaylor on the meaning behind the indigo-blue color of our hakamas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">An update on the Chiba Sensei biography project<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Info on the upcoming Instructors&#8217; Intensive in the Midwest<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">A report on the Paul Sylvain Sensei 20th Anniversary memorial seminar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Pick up your dojo\u2019s copies here at camp and appreciate anew the writing skill and thoughtfulness of our Birankai community. We can throw down and write poetry, too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2h8F3RI6QgM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birankai North America Summer Camp is here! Amazing weather, a beautiful campus and dynamic training here at St. John\u2019s University in Queens, N.Y. Day One got camp off to a great start with Patti Lyons Sensei of Bucks County Aikido leading an action-packed class. Good thing the dojo is air-conditioned\u2026 Make sure to check the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kings of Queens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}