{"id":447,"date":"2009-06-21T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-06-21T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T19:29:02","slug":"seeing-the-bigger-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the bigger picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Budo-ka we have a responsibility to those around us.\u00a0 We hold ourselves (or should) and are held to a higher standard because of our training.\u00a0 In our art this goes beyond punches and kicks.\u00a0 In budo we study the relationship between ourselves and others.\u00a0 At the start that is our opponent, and we move out from there.\u00a0 I would like to take a bit of time to recognize Jon and the work he did in raising money for a Cancer walk\/run that was held yesterday.\u00a0 It is actions like these which make an impact on those around us.\u00a0 Acts of selflessness benefit our global community and that is the kind of attitude that I feel Hatsumi Sensei is trying to generate between all of us who train in his art.<\/p>\n<p>Your life is on the line, train well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Budo-ka we have a responsibility to those around us.\u00a0 We hold ourselves (or should) and are held to a higher standard because of our training.\u00a0 In our art this goes beyond punches and kicks.\u00a0 In budo we study the relationship between ourselves and others.\u00a0 At the start that is our opponent, and we move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}