{"id":5158,"date":"2010-06-10T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2018-09-25T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:17:11","slug":"congratulations-adrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/congratulations-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Adrian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5160\" title=\"Adrian_Shum_Circle_kuro_obi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adrian_Shum_Circle_kuro_obi.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian_Shum_Circle_kuro_obi\" width=\"437\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a big\u00a0<em>\u201cthumbs up!\u201d<\/em> (along with a sizable dose of admiration and respect) for friend and design colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/muhsashum.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian J.K. Shum<\/a>, a graphic designer I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working alongside at <em>Circle<\/em> for the past five years. Adrian has been honoured with the award of a <em>Kuro Obi Shodan<\/em> (1st degree black belt) in Kyokushin Karate.<\/p>\n<p>Kyokushin is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Masutatsu Oyama (\u5927\u5c71\u500d\u9054). A very practical method of self defense, Kyokushin emphasizes realistic combat and physical toughness, and it is deeply rooted in the philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training.\u00a0Adrian began his Kyokushin training not long after joining our creative team at <em>Circle<\/em>, and continues to\u00a0train three to four times a week out of the Guardian Dojo. A milestone achievement, Adrian notes that this is only the beginning&#8230; quoting Mas Oyama, <em>&#8220;One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Osu no Seishin<\/em>\u2014the Spirit of Perseverance!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada Here\u2019s a big\u00a0\u201cthumbs up!\u201d (along with a sizable dose of admiration and respect) for friend and design colleague Adrian J.K. Shum, a graphic designer I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working alongside at Circle for the past five years. Adrian has been honoured with the award of a Kuro Obi Shodan (1st degree black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}