{"id":51,"date":"2012-11-06T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-11-13T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:36:38","slug":"poem-winter-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Winter Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>By James Sawers, Oak Park Aikikai<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Winter winds<\/p>\n<p>Winter winds<br \/>\nBlow early this year<br \/>\nSome trees already<br \/>\nScoured bare of leaves<br \/>\nGeese fly overhead<br \/>\nIn formation, confused<br \/>\nDeciding on where to go<br \/>\nTime and season<br \/>\nCome and go<br \/>\nWhen I enter<br \/>\nThe dojo is chilled<br \/>\nThe air not yet warmed<br \/>\nBy flying bodies<br \/>\nAnd the swish, slap, thud<br \/>\nAnd grunt of earnest effort<br \/>\nMy bare feet cramp<br \/>\nOn the cold mat<br \/>\nBringing to mind<br \/>\nMy recurring question<br \/>\nWhy?\u00a0 Why am I here?<br \/>\nI think of my warm couch<br \/>\nOr, my hot latte (soon!)<br \/>\nBut, here I am<br \/>\nAnxious to learn<br \/>\nWhat my body already knows<br \/>\nBut has long forgotten<br \/>\nLost, perhaps, long ago<br \/>\nOn winter winds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Sawers, Oak Park Aikikai<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}