{"id":2902,"date":"2007-10-25T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2008-09-04T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:46:22","slug":"first-degree-black-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"First degree black belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/10496_tae-kwon-dow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2903\" title=\"10496_tae-kwon-dow\" src=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/10496_tae-kwon-dow-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/10496_tae-kwon-dow-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/10496_tae-kwon-dow.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Ken Wertz of Arnold\u2019s Tae Kwon Do earned his first degree black belt on September 26. The testing was conducted by a board consisting of Dennis Arnold, instructor, and third degree blackbelts from Altoona\u2019s Academy of Tae Kwon Do. Wertz endured two-and-a-half hours of testing and completed and passed eight phases. Wertz has been training for five years and is the first student to receive a black belt from Arnold\u2019s Tae Kwon Do. \u201cHe did an excellent job, and he was tested very hard,\u201d added Arnold. Arnold\u2019s Tae Kwon Do meets at LA Fitness in downtown Tyrone on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. There is a special class on Wednesdays. For more information, contact 696-3960. (The Daily Herald\/Christina Pryor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Wertz of Arnold\u2019s Tae Kwon Do earned his first degree black belt on September 26. The testing was conducted by a board consisting of Dennis Arnold, instructor, and third degree blackbelts from Altoona\u2019s Academy of Tae Kwon Do. Wertz endured two-and-a-half hours of testing and completed and passed eight phases. Wertz has been training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}