{"id":1646,"date":"2017-07-16T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2017-07-16T01:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:12:30","slug":"1646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>It is with great sorrow that Birankai mourns the passing of Robert Burns, 5th Dan Shidoin of Aiki Farms Aikikai.  Bob was the crazy uncle of BNA.  We all loved him dearly, especially Chiba Sensei.  Bob&#8217;s loyalty, love, and dedication to our community and teacher, was unquestioned. <a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bowl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bowl.jpg\" alt=\"bowl\" width=\"289\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1647\" \/><\/a> Knowing him personally for almost 30 years, I&#8217;m grief-stricken.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nAlex Peterson<br \/>\nPresident, Birankai North America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sorrow that Birankai mourns the passing of Robert Burns, 5th Dan Shidoin of Aiki Farms Aikikai. Bob was the crazy uncle of BNA. We all loved him dearly, especially Chiba Sensei. Bob&#8217;s loyalty, love, and dedication to our community and teacher, was unquestioned. Knowing him personally for almost 30 years, I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcement&#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-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2RSKg-1646","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}