{"id":4420,"date":"2014-08-17T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2014-08-17T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:06:45","slug":"4420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/4420\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this the other day…:<\/p>\n

A martial arts student went to his teacher and said earnestly,
\n“I am devoted to studying your martial system.
\nHow long will it take mem to master it.”<\/p>\n

The teacher’s reply was casual, “Ten years.”<\/p>\n

Impatiently, the student answered,
\n“BUT I want to master it faster than that.
\nI will work very hard.
\nI will practice everyday, ten or more hours a day if I have to.
\nHow long will it take then?”<\/p>\n

The teacher thought for a moment,<\/p>\n

“20 years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw this the other day…: A martial arts student went to his teacher and said earnestly, “I am devoted to studying your martial system. How long will it take mem to master it.” The teacher’s reply was casual, “Ten years.” Impatiently, the student answered, “BUT I want to master it faster than that. I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}