{"id":9,"date":"2011-09-04T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pedrod7.sg-host.com\/v2\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2011-12-29T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:05:22","slug":"dojo-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/about-us\/dojo-history\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Dojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dojo Tai Ku An was founded in 1988 in the patio of an old Lagos\u00a0townhouse by Betty Pujol , a dentist from France and Carl Zimmerling, a\u00a0photographer from Germany . Both were disciples of Taisen Deshimaru\u00a0Roshi .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-609\" title=\"wood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wood-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wood-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wood.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning there were only a\u00a0handful\u00a0of people attending.\u00a0In the following years the Lagos Dojo moved twice, to places in the\u00a0countryside, where rent was free or cheap in old buildings .<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 Carl Zimmerling and Annette Klasen had bought a plot of land\u00a0near Bar\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o . Here was constructed with the help of many\u00a0people from the Sangha a wooden house, which is now used as the dojo.<\/p>\n<p>In the dojo we do weekly zazen and weekend-activities as the monthly\u00a0day of zazen or samu,\u00a0garden work.<\/p>\n<p>Today the group ( sangha ) consists of about 10 regular people of various\u00a0nationalities like Portuguese, French, German, English and American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dojo Tai Ku An was founded in 1988 in the patio of an old Lagos\u00a0townhouse by Betty Pujol , a dentist from France and Carl Zimmerling, a\u00a0photographer from Germany . Both were disciples of Taisen Deshimaru\u00a0Roshi . In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/about-us\/dojo-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-children.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zendojotaikuan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}