{"id":2692,"date":"2007-12-13T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2007-12-13T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:25:14","slug":"im-pro-samurai-sword-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m Pro-Samurai Sword Control."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ninja_face.jpg\" title=\"ninja_face.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ninja_face.jpg\" alt=\"ninja_face.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>England and Whales plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7139724.stm\" title=\"BBC News:  Ban on imitation Samurai swords.\">ban<\/a> Samurai swords after nearly 80 Samurai attacks in the past few years, killing at least five people.  I guess I was under the false impression that only a Samurai could obtain a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samurai_sword\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Samurai Sword.\">Samurai sword<\/a>?  According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The katana (Samurai Sword) was typically paired with the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wakizashi\" title=\"Wakizashi\">wakizashi<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sh%C5%8Dt%C5%8D\" title=\"Sh\u014dt\u014d\">sh\u014dt\u014d<\/a><\/em>, a similarly made but small sword, both worn by the members of the warrior class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When did regular <em>bloaks<\/em> in England start killing <em>mates<\/em> with Samurai swords?  And now with this ban into effect what&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Ninja.\">Ninja <\/a>to do?  I guess it&#8217;s back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Folding-Grappling-Hook-Ninja-Gear\/dp\/B0009PGVG8\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=sporting-goods&amp;qid=1197562951&amp;sr=8-1\" title=\"Amazon:  Folding Grappling Hook Ninja Gear.\">grappling hooks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja#Specialized_weapons_and_tactics\" title=\"Wikipedia: Ninja Weapons.\">smoke bombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" wmode=\"transparent\" data=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/player.swf?autostart=false&#038;token=9b2_1197453072\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/player.swf?autostart=false&#038;token=9b2_1197453072\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England and Whales plan to ban Samurai swords after nearly 80 Samurai attacks in the past few years, killing at least five people. I guess I was under the false impression that only a Samurai could obtain a Samurai sword? According to Wikipedia: The katana (Samurai Sword) was typically paired with the wakizashi or sh\u014dt\u014d, [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-Hq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}