{"id":35034,"date":"2026-03-23T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35034"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:22:47","slug":"wake-me-when-we-get-to-polearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/23\/wake-me-when-we-get-to-polearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Me When We Get To Polearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/23\/lifestyle\/sword-yoga-trend-taking-over-nyc\/\" target=\"_new\">Sword yoga is the hot, new fitness trend turning NYC women into swashbuckling fighters \u2014 with the help of a double-edged blade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty girls in movie poses with swords.  Okay.  Feeling empowered because they move like action heroes do in the movies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no EMEA expert, but I have fenced a little bit in my time, and I&#8217;ve fought in some broadsword bouts, and they were over pretty quick and did not involve spinning the blade.  Or moving it far out of a guard position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sword yoga is the hot, new fitness trend turning NYC women into swashbuckling fighters \u2014 with the help of a double-edged blade Pretty girls in movie poses with swords. Okay. Feeling empowered because they move like action heroes do in the movies. I&#8217;m no EMEA expert, but I have fenced a little bit in my [&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-35034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034","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=35034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35035,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions\/35035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}