{"id":4525,"date":"2012-02-12T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2012-02-12T22:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:06:20","slug":"a-lesson-for-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/a-lesson-for-the-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson for the Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was inspired by the guest post,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/observations-about-ukemi\/\">Observations about Ukemi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Picture this: Uke attacks yokomen. Nage enters irimi and, unexpectedly, tenkans <em>away<\/em> from uke, seemingly losing his center connection. Nage then turns to face uke and, decisively, cuts uke&#8217;s sword arm, now descending through empty air.<\/p>\n<p>The technique that follows is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>If Aikido is all about maintaining connection, why does that entrance work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was inspired by the guest post,\u00a0Observations about Ukemi. Picture this: Uke attacks yokomen. Nage enters irimi and, unexpectedly, tenkans away from uke, seemingly losing his center connection. Nage then turns to face uke and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4799,"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":[6,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jerry","category-technique","category-ukemi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}