{"id":11240,"date":"2019-04-01T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:46:38","slug":"lifes-work-part-xxxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/lifes-work-part-xxxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Work, Part XXXI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please meet April.   She is a career martial artist with special emphases, and is also a practicing ninja.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April originally trained in Okinawan Shorin-ryu Karate.   More recently, she was recruited by a secretive dojo whose rules prevent her from naming it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The principles of Shorin-ryu are codified in what is called the dojo kun.  This kun includes core principals which include striving for the perfection of character, defending the path of truth; guarding against impetuous courage, honoring the principles of etiquette, and fostering the spirit of effort.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April&#8217;s most recent dojo has an even more rigorous kun.  These kun principles include striving to be neither seen nor heard; covert assistance to those in need; defending the path of camouflage; finding the link between obscurity and humility; and guarding against prideful displays of visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April, Ninja, Plymouth, NH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"April, Ninja, Plymouth, NH\" class=\"wp-image-11245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lifes-Work-012519-3.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please meet April. She is a career martial artist with special emphases, and is also a practicing ninja. April originally trained in Okinawan Shorin-ryu Karate. More recently, she was recruited by a secretive dojo whose rules prevent her from naming it. The principles of Shorin-ryu are codified in what is called the dojo kun. This<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/lifes-work-part-xxxi\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifes-work","category-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}