{"id":920,"date":"2015-06-05T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=920"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:33:52","slug":"chiba-sensei-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"T.K. Chiba, 1940-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chiba-Sensei-notice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-921\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chiba-Sensei-notice.jpg\" alt=\"Chiba Sensei notice\" width=\"816\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chiba-Sensei-notice.jpg 816w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chiba-Sensei-notice-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chiba-Sensei-notice-464x300.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a>On behalf of Birankai International, with deep sorrow, Birankai North America announces the death today, June 5th, 2015, of our founder and teacher T. K. Chiba Shihan.<\/p>\n<p>Martial artists here and around the world salute his life as they mourn his passing. During more than 50 years of training and teaching, Sensei inspired, forged and changed the lives of generations of students.<\/p>\n<p>United in gratitude for the great gift he gave us, we offer our condolences to his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Birankai International, with deep sorrow, Birankai North America announces the death today, June 5th, 2015, of our founder and teacher T. K. Chiba Shihan. Martial artists here and around the world salute his life as they mourn his passing. During more than 50 years of training and teaching, Sensei inspired, forged and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;T.K. Chiba, 1940-2015&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}