{"id":510,"date":"2011-02-18T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/02\/18\/110218_twovideos\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:30:55","slug":"110218_twovideos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/18\/110218_twovideos\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Vids for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the Japanese excel at sword fighting? Perhaps they&#8217;ve had more practice, or perhaps they see it not just as a battle technique, but as an art form. Exhibit A:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZmlkmVoPuQA?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\" class=\"ui-droppable\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/02\/18\/shadow-sword-fight\/\">Neatorama<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this kind of art form, the kind that either makes you want to grab a board and join them, or curl into a ball and hide:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kh29_SERH0Y?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\" class=\"ui-droppable\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the trailer from a film entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofflightmovie.com\/\"><i>The Art of Flight<\/i><\/a>, scheduled for release this fall. This movie appears to raise the ante on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Miller_(director)\">Warren Miller<\/a> to a disturbing level. And if you&#8217;re wondering which of the above categories I fall into, well, my heart is in the former but my head is in the latter. <\/p>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2011\/02\/the-friday-shirk-report-february-18-2011-volume-97\/\">Twisted Shifter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the Japanese excel at sword fighting? Perhaps they&#8217;ve had more practice, or perhaps they see it not just as a battle technique, but as an art form. Exhibit A: [Link via Neatorama] Then there&#8217;s this kind of art form, the kind that either makes you want to grab a board and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/18\/110218_twovideos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Vids for the Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[27,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-web","category-sports","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}