{"id":12366,"date":"2014-04-15T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2014-04-16T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T05:13:54","slug":"squaring-the-fours-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/2014\/squaring-the-fours-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Squaring the Fours Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/taichi\/collbk_chenTC.htm#kc056\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/BK_TC\/KC056v1m.jpg\" width=\"141\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click: Chen Zheng Lei&#8217;s books on Chen Tai Chi.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/bagua\/collbk_bagua.htm#kb016\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/BGXY\/KB016m.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click: Tom Bisio&#8217;s Bagua Qigong series<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We just happen to post two new additions to two different series. 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