{"id":1447,"date":"2016-12-16T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:46:51","slug":"fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>By James Sawers<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martialartstraining.com\">Fox Valley Aikikai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My fear was so powerful<br \/>\nIt was afraid of itself<br \/>\nFear is the mind killer &#8211;<br \/>\nBut only if allowed to take root<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in seiza, breathing deeply<br \/>\nDoing four-count breathing<br \/>\nLetting the fear wash all over me<\/p>\n<p>And pass on through me<br \/>\nSlowly the fear diminished<br \/>\nDisappearing, with everything else<br \/>\nTill I sat calm, still, ready&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The call when it came \u2013 hajime!<br \/>\nFound me centered and prepared<br \/>\nMind clear, I faced myself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James SawersFox Valley Aikikai My fear was so powerful It was afraid of itself Fear is the mind killer &#8211; But only if allowed to take root Sitting in seiza, breathing deeply Doing four-count breathing Letting the fear wash all over me And pass on through me Slowly the fear diminished Disappearing, with everything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=1447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2RSKg-fear","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}