{"id":4608,"date":"2008-10-09T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/10\/09\/russian-prime-minister-shows-off-his-judo-skills\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T23:37:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T23:37:30","slug":"russian-prime-minister-shows-off-his-judo-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/09\/russian-prime-minister-shows-off-his-judo-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian prime minister shows off his judo skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>While some of Vladimir Putin\u2019s previous exploits such as darting tigers in the wild should be marked \u2018don\u2019t try this at home\u2019, there is one hobby the Russian premier is urging the world to share.<br \/>\nThe tough guy leader marked his 56th birthday with the launch of an instructional judo DVD \u2013 a release which follows other images of the leader fishing, riding and bringing down a tiger with a tranquilliser gun.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin had its premiere in St Petersburg on Wednesday, with a presentation by the politician himself. Though wearing a suit for the event rather martial arts attire, Mr Putin was enthusiastic about his new venture.<br \/>\nModestly describing his appearance on the DVD\u2019s cover as \u201can advertising trick\u201d, he told the gathering that viewers would be learning \u201cnot from your humble servant but from real geniuses\u201d. These include Yashuhiro Yamashita, a Japanese world and Olympic champion in the sport.<br \/>\nThe Russian leader, a judo black belt, does, however, demonstrate a series of throws and holds on the disc, throwing an opponent to the mat.  One head of state who could soon be on the receiving end of the former KGB agent\u2019s skills is Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr Putin told French journalists their president expressed an interest in judo and \u201cwe have decided to do some training together\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of Vladimir Putin\u2019s previous exploits such as darting tigers in the wild should be marked \u2018don\u2019t try this at home\u2019, there is one hobby the Russian premier is urging the world to share. The tough guy leader marked his 56th birthday with the launch of an instructional judo DVD \u2013 a release which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}