{"id":647,"date":"2012-04-06T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2012-04-09T02:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:43:44","slug":"tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sense a theme of crying here, but it can&#8217;t be helped, the natural result of heart strings being tugged. \u00a0Last night when I was watching some of the girls rehearsing a karate demo (let me just say this demo has been being rehearsed for weeks &#8211; I was really just watching), they wanted me to help with their self defense section. \u00a0As I watched, one of the girls, Shavana, came over to me and said, &#8220;Sister, you teach me this?&#8221; and then proceeded to show me a wrist grab escape, not part of the demo, but just to show me she remembered. \u00a0Something I had taught her from 18 months ago. \u00a0I mean, my jaw just dropped. \u00a0This is why I came. \u00a0This is why I&#8217;m doing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sense a theme of crying here, but it can&#8217;t be helped, the natural result of heart strings being tugged. \u00a0Last night when I was watching some of the girls rehearsing a karate demo (let me just say this demo has been being rehearsed for weeks &#8211; I was really just watching), they wanted me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}