{"id":2549,"date":"2007-10-24T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2007-10-24T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:20:25","slug":"about-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"About Pirates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/17\/Pirate_Flag_of_Thomas_Tew.svg\/300px-Pirate_Flag_of_Thomas_Tew.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find various tidbits about Pirates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/10\/22\/pirate-lore-7-myths-and-trrrrruths-about-pirates\/?source=rss\" title=\"Pirate Lore: 7 Myths and Trrrrruths About Pirates!\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 My favorite is the whole notion of a &#8216;plank&#8217; to walk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Few (if any) pirate ships ever used &#8220;the plank.&#8221; When pirates took over a ship, they usually let the captured crewmembers choose between joining the pirate crew or jumping overboard. Why go to all the trouble of setting up a plank to walk off? As historian Hugh Rankin put it: &#8220;The formality of a plank seems a bit absurd when it was so much easier just to toss a prisoner overboard.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What so called <em>Historian<\/em> Hugh Rankin doesn&#8217;t take into account is that everything about great piracy is purley a formality.\u00a0 From looting and murdering to the clothes they wear.<\/p>\n<p>Completely formal.\u00a0 Just like the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find various tidbits about Pirates here.\u00a0 My favorite is the whole notion of a &#8216;plank&#8217; to walk: Few (if any) pirate ships ever used &#8220;the plank.&#8221; When pirates took over a ship, they usually let the captured crewmembers choose between joining the pirate crew or jumping overboard. Why go to all the trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thought","category-vikingspirates","tag-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-F7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}