{"id":85,"date":"2011-01-08T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/?p=85"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:39:41","slug":"kendos-base-amidst-the-stunning-winter-stillness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Kendo&#8217;s base, amidst the stunning winter stillness&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 3px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 3px solid; BORDER-TOP: 3px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/KN-Mansion-snow-1_w800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\"><\/p>\n<h6>&#8220;&#8230;like a deep, deep breath in, held, and released with complete and utter control&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>Winter is powerfully symbolic of the inner strength of the warrior; the power of nature appears dormant, but has merely retreated temporarily, gathering strength ahead of its next advance, when the time is right&#8230; So, the warrior withdraws from time to time, consolidating his focus and his energies, in a deep stillness which increases his one-ness with his controlled and powerful expression&#8230;<\/p>\n<h6>Immense growth is possible in times of stillness; the greater the stillness, the greater can be the realisation and growth of true power.<\/h6>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/?p=85\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.facebook.com']);\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;like a deep, deep breath in, held, and released with complete and utter control&#8230;&#8221; Winter is powerfully symbolic of the inner strength of the warrior; the power of nature appears dormant, but has merely retreated temporarily, gathering strength ahead of its next advance, when the time is right&#8230; So, the warrior withdraws from time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kendonagasaki.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}