{"id":5319,"date":"2015-11-08T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:55:47","slug":"you-might-be-a-martial-artist-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"You Might Be A Martial Artist If:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself wondering if you might secretly be a martial artist? And, if you are a martial artist, where you are on the path?<br \/>\nHere is a handy quiz to help you find out:<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself practising grip switches with everyday household implements: 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you back fist elevator buttons instead of just pushing them: 2 points.<br \/>\nIf you have ever missed and wound up on the wrong floor: minus 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you have ever decided not to buy pants because they wouldn&#8217;t be good for high kicking: 2 points.<br \/>\nIf you bought them anyway: 3 points<br \/>\nBecause its ok to have non-martial pants: 4 points<br \/>\nBut you high kicked in them accidentally: 5 points<br \/>\nAnd they tore on the first kick: 6 points<br \/>\nIf you secretly practice knife drills with a spoon while setting the table: 2 points<br \/>\nIf you find your closest friends tend to beat you up on a regular basis: 4 points<br \/>\nIf you find yourself closing the refrigerator door with a side kick: 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you have ever dented the fridge door in this manner: 3 points. Minus the damage deposit.<br \/>\nIf you have ever saluted your boss or co-worker by accident: 2 points.<br \/>\nIf you realized your error and tried to cover your mistake by pretending you had a headache: minus 1 point.<br \/>\nIf they did not believe you: minus 2 points and most of your reputation.<br \/>\nIf you have ever accidentally clocked yourself on the way to hitting someone else. 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you were then assigned push ups as a punishment. 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you have ever tried to &#8216;tap out&#8217; of a tedious meeting: 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you have ever weighed the cost of food versus the cost of padded sparring equipment: 1 point.<br \/>\nIf you bought the equipment anyway, because its possible to go three weeks without food: 2 points.<br \/>\nIf you bought the food instead, because food makes you strong enough not to need padded sparring equipment: 3 points.<\/p>\n<p>0-10 Beginner<br \/>\n10-20 Intermediate<br \/>\n20-30 Advanced<br \/>\n30-45 Master<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself wondering if you might secretly be a martial artist? And, if you are a martial artist, where you are on the path? Here is a handy quiz to help you find out: If you find yourself practising grip switches with everyday household implements: 1 point. If you back fist elevator buttons instead of just pushing them: 2 points. If you have ever missed and wound up on the wrong floor: minus 1 point. If you have ever decided not to buy pants because they wouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5319\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}