{"id":128509,"date":"2016-07-20T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128509\/karate-student-makes-sa-team\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:41:04","slug":"karate-student-makes-sa-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/07\/20\/karate-student-makes-sa-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Karate student makes SA team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talented youngster Nadia Calore (15) is thrilled with her latest achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The Albemarle resident and pupil at Jeppe High School for Girls was surprised with an early birthday present last Saturday &#8211; a special training session at the Mohan Hira Shotokan Karate Centre in Lenasia.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Unbeknown to her, she was being graded and after a gruelling one-and-a-half hours she was awarded her junior black belt.<\/p>\n<p>If that wasn\u2019t enough, Calore was also confirmed as a member of the SA team that will be attending the 18th Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association (FSKA) World Cup Championship in Mumbai (India) from September 22 to 25.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Calore represented SA at last year\u2019s World Championship in Randburg and came away with two medals.<\/p>\n<p>Chief instructor and director Shihan Mohan Hira, who presented Calore with her black belt, is confident she will do even better at this year\u2019s edition and said that she has the \u201cspirit, dedication and determination to go all the way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116393\/local-lass-packs-a-punch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local lass packs a punch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114039\/local-athlete-receives-outstanding-swimming-achievements\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local athlete receives outstanding swimming achievements<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='62d1895bda03f5e5bbb310a7518374cb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albemarle resident Nadia Calore will soon be representing SA at the FSKA World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":128510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[2143,11760,979,969,1477,2734,11759,1119],"class_list":["post-128509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-albemarle","tag-funakoshi-shotokan-karate-association-fska-world-cup-championship","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-karate","tag-melissa-hart","tag-nadia-calore","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["albemarle","Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association (FSKA) World Cup Championship","germiston","germiston city news","karate","melissa hart","nadia calore","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}