{"id":97,"date":"2019-03-07T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=97"},"modified":"2019-03-03T19:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:37:57","slug":"march-7-ronda-rousey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/07\/march-7-ronda-rousey\/","title":{"rendered":"March 7- Ronda Rousey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronda Jean Rousey was born February 1, 1987 in Riverside, California. She is an American professional wrestler, actress, author, mixed martial artist and judoka.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rousey was a vegan after Beijing 2008, but in 2012 described her current diet as &#8220;kind of a mix between a Paleo and a Warrior diet&#8221;, trying to eat everything organic. Rousey is a fan of Dragon Ball Z and Pok\u00e9mon and her favorite Pok\u00e9mon is Mew. Ronda Rousey is ranked 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in dan black belt in Judo.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first six years of her life, Rousey struggled with speech and could not form an intelligible sentence due to apraxia, a neurological childhood speech sound disorder. Rousey dropped out of high school and later earned her GED.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rousey began judo with her mother at the age of 11. At 17, Rousey qualified for the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, becoming the youngest judoka in the entire games. She retired from judo at 21 after the Olympics. \u00a0She is currently signed to WWE, performing on the Raw brand, where she is the current Raw Women&#8217;s Champion in her first reign. Her longstanding nickname, &#8220;Rowdy&#8221;, was inherited from late professional wrestler Roddy Piper. Rousey made her mixed martial arts debut as an amateur on August 6, 2010. She defeated Hayden Munoz by submission due to an arm bar in 23 seconds. Rousey began her professional career as a mixed martial artist in 2010, after becoming the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo, by winning bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/ronda-rousey-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"image of Rousey holding a microphone in one hand and a WWE champion belt over her shoulder\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/ronda-rousey-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/ronda-rousey-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/ronda-rousey.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronda Jean Rousey was born February 1, 1987 in Riverside, California. She is an American professional wrestler, actress, author, mixed martial artist and judoka. Rousey was a vegan after Beijing 2008, but in 2012 described her current diet as &#8220;kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/07\/march-7-ronda-rousey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}