{"id":543,"date":"2015-03-18T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2015-03-19T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:04:56","slug":"five-as-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Five A&#8217;s for Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert First &#8211; Wolfpack Dojo<br \/>\n<strong>AWARENESS<\/strong> is key to self defense, without it the ability to defend ourselves is wasted, <strong>ALERTNESS<\/strong> is a heightened state of awareness. Do you know the difference between aware and alert? Being aware and alert will allow you to <strong>AVOID<\/strong> or <strong>ANTICIPATE<\/strong> any situation before it is too late and gives you the opportunity to use the proper <strong>ACTION<\/strong>. The student through daily dedicated practice can trust their instinct and act with the correct response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert First &#8211; Wolfpack Dojo AWARENESS is key to self defense, without it the ability to defend ourselves is wasted, ALERTNESS is a heightened state of awareness. Do you\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/?p=543\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-self-defense","tag-philosophy","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karateberkeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}