{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "How'd you get into martial arts?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/162462124248/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: How'd you get into martial arts?</div>\n<p>I realized I needed an exercise activity AND a going out among people activity and both should filter against phonies and I was living in Echo Park in LA at the time, and I checked this one place maybe down Alvarado? but it wasn&rsquo;t too promising, and then I was walking down Sunset and there was a storefront dojo and it had information posted in the window I squinted at and the sensei came out and sold me on a week of lessons free and he turned out to be charismatic and excellent at teaching and motivating and the first day he worked me so hard I had to go out and vomit in the gutter so I kept going</p>"}