{"id":1986,"date":"2010-07-25T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T23:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:46:02","slug":"i-miss-joey-ramone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/i-miss-joey-ramone\/","title":{"rendered":"I Miss Joey Ramone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1982, and for me, the beginning of punk. I remember the first time I heard <em>Boys Don&#8217;t Cry<\/em>, the album, and it blew my mind. There was a club in those days, Einstein A-Go-Go, and years later, on open mike night, I would watch my friends play there, badly.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the time when the wider world began to slowly seep into my consciousness. I can&#8217;t say for certain whether my interest in the martial arts began then. I know I began reading about Aikido in high school. It didn&#8217;t matter in any case &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t start training for another decade or so. But the seed was planted.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago I heard the single <em>What a Wonderful World<\/em>, covered by Joey Ramone. I can&#8217;t help but think about O-Sensei, idealism, and the crazy, anarchic world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1982, and for me, the beginning of punk. I remember the first time I heard Boys Don&#8217;t Cry, the album, and it blew my mind. There was a club in those days, Einstein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}