{"id":920,"date":"2010-08-24T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=920"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:11","slug":"young-samurai-ii-a-bad-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/08\/young-samurai-ii-a-bad-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Samurai II: A Bad Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up the second installment of the Young Samurai<\/a> at the library today. I was thinking about starting it, and looked at the back inside dust cover, where I read the following:<\/p>\n

Chris Bradford is the author of Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior<\/i>. Aside from having a black belt, he is trained in judo, karate, kickboxing, and samurai swordsmanship. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter. He lives in England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve read that a dozen times, and I read it to my wife, and the question remains: “Aside from having a black belt….” in what<\/i>? Is there some default martial art whose black belts speak for themselves and which need not be named? Or is he just making a fashion statement? <\/p>\n

No, a quick visit to his website<\/a> reveals that the black belt is in “Kyo Shin Tai-jutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja.”1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

If only Disney\/Hyperion had some black-belt copyeditors….<\/p>\n

  1. Secret<\/a>? Never mind.  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I picked up the second installment of the Young Samurai at the library today. I was thinking about starting it, and looked at the back inside dust cover, where I read the following: Chris Bradford is the author of Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior. Aside from having a black belt, he is trained…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,170,37,63,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-books-and-articles","category-foreign-views","category-japan","category-martial-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-eQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}