{"id":1649,"date":"2010-02-14T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:04:53","slug":"vale-george-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/vale-george-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale:  George Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belatedly, I have just learnt of the death last month of George Leonard (1923-2010), writer, journalist,\u00a0and aikidoka.\u00a0 He took up <em>aikido<\/em> in middle age, a journey he wrote about movingly (see reference below), and ended up co-founding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tam-aikido.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aikido of Tamalpais<\/a>.\u00a0 His writings on life, the universe and everything have been very influential in my thinking about life, as I acknowledge <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/09\/thinkers-of-renown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe <em>New York Times<\/em> has an obit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/18\/us\/18leonard1.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, Quantum Tantra a tribute <a href=\"http:\/\/quantumtantra.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/george-leonard-1923-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and Paul Rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/martial-arts-in-san-francisco\/george-leonard-a-martial-artist-who-made-a-difference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nGeorge Leonard [1985]: On getting a black belt at age fifty-two. pp. 78-98 in: \u00a0Richard Strozzi Heckler (Editor) [1985]: <em>Aikido and the New Warriors<\/em>.\u00a0 Berkeley, CA, USA:\u00a0 North Atlantic Books.\u00a0\u00a0 This volume also contains a reprint of Leonard&#8217;s fine and inspiring account of\u00a0Heckler&#8217;s aikido black belt examination, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t Richard&#8221; (pp. 198-205).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belatedly, I have just learnt of the death last month of George Leonard (1923-2010), writer, journalist,\u00a0and aikidoka.\u00a0 He took up aikido in middle age, a journey he wrote about movingly (see reference below), and ended up co-founding Aikido of Tamalpais.\u00a0 His writings on life, the universe and everything have been very influential in my thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-religion","p1","y2010","m02","d14","h17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}