{"id":56,"date":"2008-03-31T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/1\/return-visit-by-japanese-caller-duke-okada"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T11:51:45","slug":"return-visit-by-japanese-caller-duke-okada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/1\/return-visit-by-japanese-caller-duke-okada","title":{"rendered":"Return visit by Japanese caller Duke Okada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/okada.JPG\" title=\"The Okada family with Graham &amp; Dawn\"><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/5193-ao-dk.JPG\" title=\"Duke calling\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/5193-ao-dk-comp.JPG\" title=\"Duke calling\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/5193-ao-dk-comp.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Duke calling\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/2008-duke-okada-1.jpg\" title=\"The Okadas, the Elliotts and Julie &amp; Peter Winter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/2008-duke-okada-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Okadas, the Elliotts and Julie &amp; Peter Winter\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/okada.JPG\" title=\"Mariko Okada, Dawn, Graham, Atsuyuki Okada, Sumika Okada and Duke Okada.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/okada.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Mariko Okada, Dawn, Graham, Atsuyuki Okada, Sumika Okada and Duke Okada.\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on pictures to enlarge)<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We were thrilled to receive a return visit from Duke Okada from Osaka in Japan. Duke visited us back in 2006 and returned this year with his wife and two children for a brief holiday in Adelaide. In visiting both our MS and Plus clubs, we were priveleged to have him call. He has a smooth style and is very clear and he quickly endeared himself to our dancers. Their visit coincided with our Adelaide Idol easter Dance and I think they were quite entertained by the outstanding talent of our dancers.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst here, we took the opportunity to expose them to some of the culinary delights that Adelaide has to offer and give them a sample of the Adelaide Festival with a tour of the &#8220;Northern Lights&#8221; display on Adelaide&#8217;s North Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>We say &#8220;Arigato&#8221; (thankyou) and syonarrah to our Japanese friends and hope we shall cross paths again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Duke&#8217;s club website on our &#8220;Square Dance Resources&#8221; links page. Why you might even spot some Aussies there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click on pictures to enlarge)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were thrilled to receive a return visit from Duke Okada from Osaka in Japan. Duke visited us back in 2006 and returned this year with his wife and two children for a brief holiday in Adelaide. In visiting both our MS and Plus clubs, we were priveleged to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,1],"tags":[14,15,10,17],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-1","tag-caller","tag-japanese","tag-square-dance","tag-square-dance-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelaideoutlaws.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}