{"id":57607,"date":"2021-10-20T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57607"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:44:03","slug":"kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/57607","title":{"rendered":"Kung Fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/tumblr_2d5c35884df4dd68b2289fa74fb1e8ae_32854bce_640.jpg\" alt=\"Kung Fu\" width=\"564\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/tumblr_2d5c35884df4dd68b2289fa74fb1e8ae_32854bce_640.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/tumblr_2d5c35884df4dd68b2289fa74fb1e8ae_32854bce_640-470x633.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKung fu. It means, \u201csupreme skill from hard work.\u201d A great poet has reached kung fu. The painter, the calligrapher, they can be said to have kung fu. Even the cook, the one who sweeps steps or a masterful servant can have kung fu. Practice. Preparation. Endless repetition. Until your mind is weary, and your bones ache. Until you\u2019re too tired to sweat, too wasted to breathe. That is the way, the only way one acquires kung fu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hundred Eyes &#8211; Marco Polo (2014)<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/kungfuwushuworld.tumblr.com\/post\/665283457970225152\/kung-fu-it-means-supreme-skill-from-hard\">Kung Fu World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKung fu. It means, \u201csupreme skill from hard work.\u201d A great poet has reached kung fu. The painter, the calligrapher, they can be said to have kung fu. Even the cook, the one who sweeps steps or a masterful servant can have kung fu. Practice. Preparation. Endless repetition. Until your mind is weary, and your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57609,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607\/revisions\/57609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}