{"id":1229,"date":"2018-02-28T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:59:13","slug":"where-shake-yoga-can-take-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Where &#8220;Shake Yoga&#8221; Can Take You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/23\/books\/eiko-splits-self-help-new-marie-kondo.html\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a story I did for the New York Times about a bestselling book in Japan that promises&#8211;through the magic of thigh-based jiggling&#8211;to have you doing the splits in a month&#8217;s time. \u00a0The book was written by a yoga teacher in Osaka  , Japan who&#8217;s been dubbed The Queen of the Splits. (One reader responded on the Times&#8217;s website, &#8220;Next month in the New York Times: &#8216;A Sharp Spike in Groin Injuries Seen in Emergency Rooms Across the Country.'&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story I did for the New York Times about a bestselling book in Japan that promises&#8211;through the magic of thigh-based jiggling&#8211;to have you doing the splits in a month&#8217;s time. \u00a0The book was written by a yoga teacher in Osaka , Japan who&#8217;s been dubbed The Queen of the Splits. (One reader responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}