{"id":31,"date":"2013-02-18T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:18:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><em>&#8220;Water, the softest substance, overcomes the hardest.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Tao de Ching<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"layout_zone1\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<div>Hello, Ni Hao! My name is J. Paul Peszko, and I&#8217;m your host here at SoCal Tai Chi. I have been a long-time practitioner of Tai Chi and the Internal Martial Arts and have worked with a number of grandmasters of various styles. Like many of us who practice this art, I remain dedicated to sharing all that I have discovered about this mysterious and wondrous practice and its equally mysterious source &#8211; the eternal Tao, the Brahman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I hope you will take the time to search through this website as there is much of interest for both the beginner and the experienced practitioner as well as anyone who would like to discover more about their physical equipment that we call the body.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The body and mind are wonderful tools, but they are not who you are. \u00a0You are much, much more than an inert body and mind, You are what empowers them.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biopix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biopix.jpg\" alt=\"biopix\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biopix.jpg 257w, https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biopix-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Water, the softest substance, overcomes the hardest.&#8221; &#8211; Tao de Ching Hello, Ni Hao! My name is J. Paul Peszko, and I&#8217;m your host here at SoCal Tai Chi. I have been a long-time practitioner of Tai Chi and the Internal Martial Arts and have worked with a number of grandmasters of various styles. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}