{"id":1080,"date":"2006-02-15T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2006-02-15T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T11:19:00","slug":"unlimited-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Unlimited Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kung Fu update:  I just broke a <em>dangling<\/em> board with a side kick.  I feel pretty macho right now.<\/p>\n<p>Funny part, but obvious in retrospect:  it had nothing to do with speed during the wind up.  I pushed it away a few times with kicks where I tried too hard to sneak up on the board, not telegraph my motions, and all that other good stuff.  Then I slowed down, got my posture perfect, took the windup slow, and snapped the kick right at the end.  Pow.  Two pieces of pine where there had been one before.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to do that the last time I tried it.  This makes me very happy.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, iPhoto is updating all my thumbnails, since I purchased the new version of iLife from Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kung Fu update: I just broke a dangling board with a side kick. I feel pretty macho right now.<\/p>\n<p>Funny part, but obvious in retrospect: it had nothing to do with speed during the wind up. I pushed it away a few times with kicks where I tried too hard to sneak up on the <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1080\">Unlimited Power!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}