{"id":44064,"date":"2020-09-24T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44064"},"modified":"2020-09-23T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:10:13","slug":"qotd-gurkha-versus-japanese-mano-a-mano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/09\/24\/qotd-gurkha-versus-japanese-mano-a-mano\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gurkha versus Japanese, <em>mano a mano<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Favourite of [Field Marshal Viscount] Slim&#8217;s tales of these wonderful little fighters from the Himalayas is that of the Gurkha who met a Japanese in No Man&#8217;s Land. Jap and Gurkha decided to have it out in a duel, each using his own chosen steel. The Jap swiped at his opponent with his two handed sword, which the Gurkha avoided. Then, the Gurkha slashed with his kukri, the broad, curved knife which is his traditional weapon. &#8220;So, you missed, eh?&#8221; jeered the Jap. &#8220;You just sneeze,&#8221; said the Gurkha, &#8220;and see what happens to your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattoid.com\/data\/Military\/Sikhs_Slim_and_stuff.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The love affair the British have with India, as Rudyard Kipling, M M Kaye, John Masters, et al, have shown&#8221;, <em>Sikhs in Burma Campaign<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favourite of [Field Marshal Viscount] Slim&#8217;s tales of these wonderful little fighters from the Himalayas is that of the Gurkha who met a Japanese in No Man&#8217;s Land. Jap and Gurkha decided to have it out in a duel, each using his own chosen steel. The Jap swiped at his opponent with his two handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[7,57,23,24,5,41,663,230],"tags":[1103,678],"class_list":["post-44064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-india","category-japan","category-military","category-quotations","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-infantry","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bsI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44064","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=44064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60456,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44064\/revisions\/60456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}