{"id":12542,"date":"2010-04-27T07:42:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:55:18","slug":"wiegle-matt-your-karate-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12542","title":{"rendered":"Wiegle, Matt &#8211; Your Karate Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.partykausa.com\/matt\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/karatevacation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"karatevacation1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/karatevacation1.jpg\" alt=\"karatevacation1\" width=\"326\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Karate Vacation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See, this is a main reason why I never take names down on this website: you never know when you&#8217;re going to see their work again.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a couple of years, but I finally found a new book from Matt, and it&#8217;s a wonderful thing.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a book of advice on how to have a proper vacation while following all the precepts of karate.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s always a good sign when I could have sampled any page of a book (as the whole thing is hilarious), although if it didn&#8217;t take too much away from the story I would have picked the two page spread in the center with the karate master&#8217;s advice on how to clear out long lines.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe the panel where he has to concentrate on imagining himself fighting a duck to stay mentally on the path of the warrior.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it would be his excellent advice about public transportation?\u00c2\u00a0 You see where I&#8217;m going with all this: this book is fantastic and you should think about picking it up.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you don&#8217;t have a sense of humor about the karate stuff, in which case there&#8217;s no help for you.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and it&#8217;s only a measly $1!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/karatevacation2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"karatevacation2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/karatevacation2.jpg\" alt=\"karatevacation2\" width=\"427\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Your Karate Vacation See, this is a main reason why I never take names down on this website: you never know when you&#8217;re going to see their work again.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a couple of years, but I finally found a new book from Matt, and it&#8217;s a wonderful thing.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3106,2370],"class_list":["post-12542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-matt-wiegle","tag-your-karate-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12543,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions\/12543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}