{"id":1752,"date":"2012-05-08T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2013-01-07T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T06:08:12","slug":"vale-ron-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Vale: Ron Bennett."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sad day for Australian Kendo.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, sensei Ron Bennett passed away quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Ron, as he liked to be known, was a founding member of Australian Kendo in the 1960&#8217;s and since then, Ron has continued to be a driver of the development of kendo in Australia. His efforts and interest was consistent, strong and supportive over all those years.<\/p>\n<p>Ron was also a mentor, support and good friend to many, many of us.<\/p>\n<p>Our sympathy and condolences are extended to Rons wife, June and the whole Bennett family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Added on 14 May 2012<\/p>\n<p>The funeral for Ron Bennett will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday 15 May at Beresfield Crematorium, Anderson Drive, Beresfield, New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>A light lunch nearby will follow at the Beresfield Bowling Club, where all friends and family are invited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1753\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" title=\"294582_187232318022894_115033151909478_400567_2056760528_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/294582_187232318022894_115033151909478_400567_2056760528_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/294582_187232318022894_115033151909478_400567_2056760528_n.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/294582_187232318022894_115033151909478_400567_2056760528_n-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/294582_187232318022894_115033151909478_400567_2056760528_n-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sad day for Australian Kendo. Last night, sensei Ron Bennett passed away quietly. Ron, as he liked to be known, was a founding member of Australian Kendo &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kendo","category-news","category-women-in-kendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}