{"id":40,"date":"2023-01-28T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2023-02-16T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:48:31","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JViall.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nashville Dojo was established in 1966 By Master Denny Shaffer. Nashville dojo is the oldest and longest-running karate school in Nashville. It is an extreme pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to be Chief Instructor at the Nashville Dojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nashville Dojo has a long and distinctive history of some of the greatest instructors and karate-ka.&nbsp;I&nbsp;am excited to carry the honor, traditions, and expectations of The Nashville Dojo\u2019s past, present, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been in Martial Arts for over 30+ years, and when the opportunity came for me to take over operation of the dojo so that I could share my knowledge with everyone, I jumped at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that I am responsible for teaching the traditions and the art while also ensuring that students walk out with fundamental practical self-defense knowledge and not some false sense of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTo get 110%, you must give 110%.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Sensei Darren Reed<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville Dojo was established in 1966 By Master Denny Shaffer. Nashville dojo is the oldest and longest-running karate school in Nashville. It is an extreme pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to be Chief Instructor at the Nashville Dojo. Nashville Dojo has a long and distinctive history of some of the greatest instructors and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashvilledojo.com\/dojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}