{"id":59,"date":"2007-06-14T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=24&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-06-14T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:23:10","slug":"starting-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/starting-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key to mastery in any martial art is to start young.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graphics\/blog\/wills_of_the_exploding_pen.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"starting young\" title=\"starting young\" width=\"313\" height=\"263\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This photograph, taken by an undercover journalist who had infiltrated a Fudebakudo Baby Camp deep in the cellars of a secret monastery in the Wutan foot-hills, shows the early stages of indoctrination. Presumably the parents paid handsomely for putting their offspring through such an elite, disciplined regime. <\/p>\n<p>It makes you wonder just when the army of Fudebakudo toddler-warriors will be unleashed upon this unsuspecting world, swinging Fisher-Price battle-axes and hurling shuriken in primary colours with rounded corners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to mastery in any martial art is to start young. &nbsp; This photograph, taken by an undercover journalist who had infiltrated a Fudebakudo Baby Camp deep in the cellars of a secret monastery in the Wutan foot-hills, shows the early stages of indoctrination. Presumably the parents paid handsomely for putting their offspring through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/starting-young\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting young&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}