{"id":6698,"date":"2015-06-22T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:35:58","slug":"the-s-o-m-o-t-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-s-o-m-o-t-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The S.o.M.o.T. Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6709 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_3607-980x487.jpg\" alt=\"The S.o.M.o.T Project\" width=\"980\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_3607-980x487.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_3607-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/>About a month ago Torrance Cox\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesomotproject.com\">The S.o.M.o.T Project<\/a> contacted us with a proposition:\u00a0For a few hours of your time, help me show some deserving young men what Aikido is all about. A quick Google search told me everything I needed to know. From their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The S.o.M.o.T Project (&#8220;Saving our Men of Tomorrow&#8221;) provides life altering and Christian training for young men to escape from poverty, and to transition into becoming equipped for life to lead their families, churches, and communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their mission\u00a0is to mend relationships between father and son,\u00a0and also to expose young men to opportunities they may not normally experience.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we wanted to participate.<\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday Dmitry, Ashton, Scott, Kevin, Buck and myself taught a two and a half hour Aikido seminar, starting with ukemi, and finishing, appropriately, with Chiba Sensei&#8217;s 8 count bokken kata. It was an amazing experience, for a worthy organization, with enthusiastic and eager participants.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so\u00a0grateful\u00a0that Mr. Cox thought of us; it is a relationship we hope will continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago Torrance Cox\u00a0of The S.o.M.o.T Project contacted us with a proposition:\u00a0For a few hours of your time, help me show some deserving young men what Aikido is all about. A quick Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerry","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","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=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6710,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}