{"id":466,"date":"2015-03-10T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/?p=466"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:59:48","slug":"happy-75th-birthday-carlos-ray-chuck-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Happy 75th Birthday, Carlos Ray &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MtG-ChuckNorris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-219 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MtG-ChuckNorris-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"MtG-ChuckNorris\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MtG-ChuckNorris-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MtG-ChuckNorris.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>Say what you will about Chuck Norris, the man has mad martial arts skills, a great deal of personal integrity, and good sense of humor.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a bad combination for anyone to aspire to.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been doing martial arts since he discovered them while stationed\u00a0in South Korea with the USAF.\u00a0 At 75, he&#8217;s still\u00a0at the top of his own system, Chun Kuk Do, and he still takes an occasional acting role among fellow action stars like\u00a0Schwarzenegger and Stallone. The difference, of course, is that Chuck really <em>is<\/em> that much of a badass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chuck_Norris_Wallpaper_by_thereverend3k-e1425926043182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-467 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chuck_Norris_Wallpaper_by_thereverend3k-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck_Norris_Wallpaper_by_thereverend3k\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Humorous Chuck Norris &#8220;facts&#8221;\u00a0are at epic legendary status on the internet and around the\u00a0world. Anyone who has ever played World of Warcraft knows why Chuck Norris was recruited to do their commercials: A running stream of player narrated &#8220;Chuck Norris Facts&#8221; are a regular staple on Barrens Chat, the common chat channel on one lower level area of the WoW virtual world,\u00a0at any time of day or night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chuck-and-eric-e1425927047574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-474 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chuck-and-eric-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"chuck-and-eric\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>For my own part, I have to admit taking a certain amount of silly pride in having Mr. Norris in my Tang Soo Do training lineage by way of my first instructor, SBN Breuer.\u00a0 It took a while for my days in the Chuck Norris Karate System, as it was called back then, to steer me back to Tang Soo Do but that history definitely played a part.\u00a0 For that I say, thank you, Mr. Norris, and Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CNCode.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-478 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CNCode-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"CNCode\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CNCode-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CNCode.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Chuck_Norris_Wallpaper_by_thereverend3k-e1425926043182.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Chuck Norris, the man has mad martial arts skills, a great deal of personal integrity, and good sense of humor.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a bad combination for anyone to aspire to.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been doing martial arts since he discovered them while stationed\u00a0in South Korea with the USAF.\u00a0 At 75, he&#8217;s still\u00a0at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/?p=466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 75th Birthday, Carlos Ray &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Norris<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-thoughts","category-tang-soo-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}