{"id":1972,"date":"2009-08-07T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2020-05-09T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:21:21","slug":"montreal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/montreal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We rode up in the elevator with the coach and several team members from the Toronto football team. They were <strong>huge<\/strong>. This is the second time in my life that I&#8217;ve looked around and seen nothing but chest at eye level. The first time was when the Russian men&#8217;s volleyball team walked around me in an airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the habits I&#8217;ve developed from the martial arts is to constantly be aware of and size up the people around me. Mostly this is to prevent unpleasant surprises and to keep a handle on the best direction to apply the Adidas defense should it become necessary. I looked these guys over &#8230; all of them 6 foot 10, huge, and obviously able to outrun me on a sprint, and all I could think was &#8220;I got nothin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rode up in the elevator with the coach and several team members from the Toronto football team. They were huge. This is the second time in my life that I&#8217;ve looked around and seen nothing but chest at eye level. The first time was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}