{"id":2876,"date":"2012-06-25T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2012-06-27T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:05:10","slug":"2876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/06\/2876\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Swordsmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found a really interesting website today about a society aiming to recreate medieval and renaissance sword-fighting methods based on the instructions produced during the period. \u00a0 It is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearma.org\/\">Association for Renaissance Martial Arts<\/a>. \u00a0 They have a fairly extensive website with plenty of interesting discussion of medieval fighting styles. \u00a0 They also rightly point out that what we see in movies is about as far removed from reality as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.\/gp\/product\/0345340426\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0345340426\">The Hobbit<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" tkoljbjsqarpupmjfkyz tkoljbjsqarpupmjfkyz\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-\/e\/ir?t=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0345340426\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. \u00a0 <strong>Very interesting site and worth checking out.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a really interesting website today about a society aiming to recreate medieval and renaissance sword-fighting methods based on the instructions produced during the period. \u00a0 It is the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts. \u00a0 They have a fairly extensive&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/06\/2876\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,24,1223],"tags":[564,321,74,563],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-military-technology","category-pre-modern-warfare","tag-martial-arts","tag-medieval-history-2","tag-medieval-war","tag-swordsmanship","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}