{"id":372,"date":"2013-09-06T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=372"},"modified":"2013-09-06T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:04:32","slug":"10-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"10 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sesshin-at-Bucks-County.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-373\" alt=\"Sesshin at Bucks County\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sesshin-at-Bucks-County-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sesshin-at-Bucks-County-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sesshin-at-Bucks-County-388x300.jpg 388w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sesshin-at-Bucks-County.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The honking of geese flying south. The sound of rain. The feel of grass against your aching toes. The taste of rice gruel at 6 am. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10151202836524216&amp;l=5333386058926105344\">sound of the gong at 4 am<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/bcaaikido.tumblr.com\/post\/55734128091\/10th-anniversary-fall-sesshin-and-weapons-intensive\">sesshin<\/a>, or Zen meditation retreat, at Bucks County Aikido is a special experience. \u00a0A small group of Aikidoka spends the weekend in the Pennsylvania countryside. Each person immerses themselves in both Zen and Aikido weapons practice under the guidance of Genjo Marinello Osho of <a href=\"http:\/\/choboji.org\/\">Chobo-ji in Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year is the 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Bucks County Sesshin, and I\u2019ve been lucky to attend about half of them. You\u2019ll find me again this October listening to the wind, shuffling off to dokusan and clinking my bowls. Where will you be?<\/p>\n<p><em>L. Klein<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honking of geese flying south. The sound of rain. The feel of grass against your aching toes. The taste of rice gruel at 6 am. The sound of the gong at 4 am. The annual sesshin, or Zen meditation retreat, at Bucks County Aikido is a special experience. \u00a0A small group of Aikidoka spends &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 years on&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-60","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}