{"id":25551,"date":"2020-01-17T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2020-01-15T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:22:14","slug":"wrong-weapon-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/wrong-weapon-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Weapon For The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kake.com\/story\/41562982\/kansas-man-requests-trial-by-combat-with-swords-to-settle-custody-battle-with-ex-wife\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas man requests &#8216;trial by combat&#8217; with swords to settle custody battle with ex-wife<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can \u201crend their souls\u201d from their bodies.<\/p>\n<p><center>. . . .<\/center><\/p>\n<p>He also asked the judge for 12 weeks&#8217; time so he could secure Japanese samurai swords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As there&#8217;s no armor, I would recommend the rapier.<\/p>\n<p>As I am sure I have mentioned over and over again, when my martial arts class was studying swords and sparring, I was a relative master because I fought rapier-style and poked my opponents far faster than they could swing a psuedo-katana at me.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/354820\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas man requests &#8216;trial by combat&#8217; with swords to settle custody battle with ex-wife: A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can \u201crend their souls\u201d from their bodies. . . . . He also asked the judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25552,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions\/25552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}