{"id":117,"date":"2008-05-14T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20080514\/the-epiphany-the-led-me-to-aikido\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:43:39","slug":"the-epiphany-that-led-me-to-aikido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20080514\/the-epiphany-that-led-me-to-aikido\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany That Led Me to Aikido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px 5px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/419019589_3944d8f989_m.jpg\" alt=\"dojo\" \/>Off and on for months a friend in Colorado talked up his judo renaissance.  Not only does he attend adult classes, he instructs beginner level kids on Friday nights.  He&#8217;s particularly proud of a video of cats he found duking it out.  The grappling cat clearly kicks the striking cat&#8217;s ass\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfeline judo vs feline karate I guess.  He enjoys it all.<\/p>\n<p>I told him I thought about getting out and doing something physical.  Working from home hasn&#8217;t been melting the pounds the way I&#8217;d initially expected.<\/p>\n<p>In some non-judo related conversation I relayed an epiphany I&#8217;d had the evening before: heroes make decisions early.  The person that jumps in front of a bus to push a toddler to safety doesn&#8217;t decide to do that an instant before leaping, they decide to do it earlier in the day or last week or a couple years back.  It just happens that they were unable to act until the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>His responded with, &#8220;You need to train in aikido.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve discovered how these two things are related.  Maybe that&#8217;s  black belt stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Dojo by Night&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dimmerswitch\/419019589\/\">Dimmerswitch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off and on for months a friend in Colorado talked up his judo renaissance. Not only does he attend adult classes, he instructs beginner level kids on Friday nights. He&#8217;s particularly proud of a video of cats he found duking it out. The grappling cat clearly kicks the striking cat&#8217;s ass\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfeline judo vs feline karate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20080514\/the-epiphany-that-led-me-to-aikido\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Epiphany That Led Me to Aikido&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,36,34,35],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aikido","tag-decision-making","tag-epiphany","tag-heroes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb6Km-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}