{"id":1700,"date":"2007-08-04T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2007-08-04T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T04:10:00","slug":"martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"Martial arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are at least three perfectly good reasons to study a martial art. <\/p>\n

* To learn how to fight, or at least how to defend yourself from attack.
\n* To study an ancient, traditional art form
\n* To improve yourself mentally and physically and come closer to achieving your potential.<\/p>\n

All three are valid, and it’s important to realize which ones drive you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are at least three perfectly good reasons to study a martial art. <\/p>\n

* To learn how to fight, or at least how to defend yourself from attack. * To study an ancient, traditional art form * To improve yourself mentally and physically and come closer to achieving your potential.<\/p>\n

All three are valid, . . . → Read More: Martial arts<\/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\/1700"}],"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=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}