{"id":33384,"date":"2015-10-29T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33384"},"modified":"2015-10-28T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:32:22","slug":"an-unfortunate-side-effect-of-sword-and-sorcery-novelsmoviestv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/29\/an-unfortunate-side-effect-of-sword-and-sorcery-novelsmoviestv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"An unfortunate side-effect of popular sword-and-sorcery novels\/movies\/TV shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far too many people have incredibly unrealistic views of what a &#8220;sword fight&#8221; actually looked like, thanks to fantasy novels, big-budget Hollywood movies, and TV shows. For example, one of the quickest ways to lose a swordfight? The stereotypical &#8220;spin move&#8221;. It may not get you killed every time, but it gives your opponent a great opportunity to finish the fight before you get fully turned around. C\u00e9dric Hauteville does his best to bring a bit of reality into modern day understanding about what was really involved in face-to-face combat with swords in his new documentary <em>Back to the Source<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7DBmNVHTmNs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far too many people have incredibly unrealistic views of what a &#8220;sword fight&#8221; actually looked like, thanks to fantasy novels, big-budget Hollywood movies, and TV shows. For example, one of the quickest ways to lose a swordfight? The stereotypical &#8220;spin move&#8221;. It may not get you killed every time, but it gives your opponent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[498,678],"class_list":["post-33384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-martialarts","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33396,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions\/33396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}