{"id":21193,"date":"2023-04-19T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/?p=21193"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:51:27","slug":"kick-a-thon-fundraiser-may-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/?p=21193","title":{"rendered":"Kick-a-thon Fundraiser May 5 &amp; 6!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Dear Students and Parents,<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>One of our primary goals at Kicks Karate is to develop positive life skills and teach lessons that will impact our students\u2019 lives not only today, but long after they leave our program. \u00a0These include skills such as, the \u201c3 rules of concentration\u201d, \u201cfirst time listening\u201d, and having an \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Our definition of an \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d is to be thankful for everything we have, but also wanting to help others who can use our assistance, or are less fortunate. \u00a0Before the pandemic, we used to host an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/KicksKarateMakeAWish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kick-a-thon<\/a> to raise awareness and resources for a charitable organization to express our own \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This year we are bringing it back! \u00a0We have chosen the Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic as the organization that we will work with. \u00a0Feel free to visit their website and read the inspiring stories at <a href=\"http:\/\/midatlantic.wish.org\">http:\/\/midatlantic.wish.org<\/a>. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Here is how the \u201ckick-a-thon\u201d works and how you can help. On Friday and Saturday, May 5th and 6th, we will host the \u201ckick-a-thon\u201d at all eight of our locations. \u00a0Each participating student will seek out relatives, friends, teachers, and neighbors to sponsor them to perform 100 kicks at 10 cents per kick, for a total of $10.00 per sponsor. The more sponsors the student gets, the more money we raise for Make-a-Wish of the Mid-Atlantic. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Please understand that this is a voluntary program, but one that we truly hope you will get behind and endorse. \u00a0We have a terrific opportunity to not only help a lot of people in need, but also to teach our children a valuable life lesson. \u00a0 All proceeds will go to Make-a-Wish of the Mid-Atlantic and <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/KicksKarateMakeAWish\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/KicksKarateMakeAWish\">Donate Now<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It is through my own \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d that I sincerely thank you for your consideration of this program. Our entire staff is looking forward to this event. \u00a0As always, thank you for everything you do to make Kicks Karate such a special place of learning.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Yours in the spirit of the martial arts, <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>John Bussard<br \/>CEO &amp; 8th DAN Black Belt<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Students and Parents,\u00a0One of our primary goals at Kicks Karate is to develop positive life skills and teach lessons that will impact our students\u2019 lives not only today, but long after they leave our program. \u00a0These include skills such as, the \u201c3 rules of concentration\u201d, \u201cfirst time listening\u201d, and having an \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d.\u00a0Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24955,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193\/revisions\/24955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickskarateinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}