{"id":70,"date":"2007-02-26T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&#038;articleId=13&#038;blogId=1"},"modified":"2018-08-03T00:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:42:49","slug":"aikido-described","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/aikido-described\/","title":{"rendered":"Aikido described"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Several times a week I walk past the haberdashery shop where I bought the bits and pieces needed to make the  <a class=\"fbd_link\" href=\"\/en\/cake.html\">wedding&nbsp;cake<\/a> and I am reminded of the conversation I had with one of the women working there at the time.  Rather than introduce the unfamiliar word  &quot;aikido&quot; into the conversation, I&#39;d previously said I was  making little &quot;judo&quot; figures. <\/p>\n<p> But when I needed the material for the hakama (the black pleated skirts) it clearly wasn&#39;t that straightforward, and I was asked again what martial art it was for. Reluctantly, because I generally avoid conversations about the martial arts with martially uninformed (that is, normal) people, I said &quot;aikido.&quot; <\/p>\n<p> &quot;Is that the one with the sticks?&quot; the lady asked. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;Well&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. no, you&#39;re probably thinking of kendo,&quot; I replied, because on the balance of probabilities (and previous experience) that would be the case. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;No, I&#39;m sure it&#39;s <em>aikido<\/em>,&quot; she said. &quot;<strong>They always bring their sticks, but they never use them. They just stroke each other.<\/strong>&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Yep, that sounds like aikido. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times a week I walk past the haberdashery shop where I bought the bits and pieces needed to make the wedding&nbsp;cake and I am reminded of the conversation I had with one of the women working there at the time. Rather than introduce the unfamiliar word &quot;aikido&quot; into the conversation, I&#39;d previously said I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/aikido-described\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aikido described&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}