{"id":119,"date":"1998-11-20T10:47:34","date_gmt":"1998-11-20T04:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"1998-11-20T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"1998-11-20T04:47:34","slug":"martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/119","title":{"rendered":"Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I gave up the basketball club at school, I put all my energy into martial arts. My host mother had found a small doujou near home where the sensei taught a style invented by their father, combining aikidou and other styles with a few of his own moves. The senior sensei demonstrated the power of the style to me on the first night by placing a hand on my chest and nudging. I was lifted off my feet and crashed into the floorboards a good two metres back from where I&#8217;d stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I gave up the basketball club at school, I put all my energy into martial arts. My host mother had found a small doujou near home where the sensei taught a style invented by their father, combining aikidou and other styles with a few of his own moves. The senior sensei demonstrated the power&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/119\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Martial Arts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}