{"id":87883,"date":"2019-02-18T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/in-france-the-force-is-strong-with-lightsaber-dueling"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:02:49","slug":"in-france-the-force-is-strong-with-lightsaber-dueling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/in-france-the-force-is-strong-with-lightsaber-dueling","title":{"rendered":"In France, the Force is strong with lightsaber dueling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-france-the-force-is-strong-with-lightsaber-dueling2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France (AP) \u2014 Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now easier than ever in France to act out \u201cStar Wars\u201d fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas\u2019 saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsaber replicas can\u2019t slice a Sith lord in half. But they look and, with the more expensive sabers equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble, even sound remarkably like the silver screen blades that Yoda and other characters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yADHZkBPjrE\">wield in the blockbuster movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/cd0c1f824ff949cab6f76d3b03a389bb\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/cd0c1f824ff949cab6f76d3b03a389bb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France (AP) \u2014 Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must. It\u2019s now easier than ever in France to act out \u201cStar Wars\u201d fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas\u2019 saga the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}