{"id":15,"date":"2019-06-22T03:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T03:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomkondo.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2020-01-03T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:06:09","slug":"about-tom-kondo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/about-tom-kondo\/","title":{"rendered":"About Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tom is a retired engineer in the NonStop Division of Hewlett Packard. He also climbs mountains (Mt.\u00a0Kilimanjaro\u00a0in 2004 and Mt. Fuji in 2019) rides bikes and reads science fiction.\u00a0\u00a0He is in his 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0year of studying T\u2019ai Chi and has taught for the last 29 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The teachers that Tom studies with trace the lineage of this style back to Chen Pan-Ling out of Nanking&nbsp;China. He has also studied Ba Gua under Chang-I-Chang for several years. Tom is qualified to teach the Single Person Form, the Two Person form and a T\u2019ai Chi walking stick form as well as Chi Kung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> I have found that when I lived in the high tech world of\u00a0Silicon Valley, I needed something for balance to relieve stress and add art to my life. T\u2019ai Chi Ch\u2019uan was perfect. It remains a wonderful practice in retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom is a retired engineer in the NonStop Division of Hewlett Packard. He also climbs mountains (Mt.\u00a0Kilimanjaro\u00a0in 2004 and Mt. Fuji in 2019) rides bikes and reads science fiction.\u00a0\u00a0He is in his 31st\u00a0year of studying T\u2019ai Chi and has taught for the last 29 years.\u00a0 The teachers that Tom studies with trace the lineage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/about-tom-kondo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Tom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkondo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}