{"id":1133,"date":"2012-08-05T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:45:09","slug":"yoga-class-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/08\/yoga-class-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Yoga Good For Real Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>Last week I stubbed my toe.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t hurt, rather there was blood that took almost a week to completely scab over.\u00a0 It was at the top of the captain toe so I had to wear sandals almost every day, even at work.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a yoga class and after a couple of poses realized that blood would start oozing if I went any further.\u00a0 I laid down on my mat and decided to start savasana fifty minutes early.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what yoga has taught me.\u00a0 Make an effort and if you&#8217;ve done your best but can&#8217;t complete the task, head to the mental shower for a cleansing.\u00a0 Actually, I fell asleep.\u00a0 Maybe I should do this in real life.\u00a0 If things aren&#8217;t going well at work, go to sleep.\u00a0 Problems with a relationship or friendship?\u00a0 Go to sleep.\u00a0 Maybe I should get a sleeping bag for my car for when my effort isn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Am I mistaken or does yoga promote escapism?<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, Last week I stubbed my toe.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t hurt, rather there was blood that took almost a week to completely scab over.\u00a0 It was at the top of the captain toe so I had to wear sandals almost every day, even at work. I went to a yoga class and after a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,10],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-class-2","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}