{"id":88200,"date":"2019-02-27T04:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-french-fencing-federation-introduces-lightsaber-dueling-as-a-new-sport"},"modified":"2019-02-27T04:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:22:50","slug":"the-french-fencing-federation-introduces-lightsaber-dueling-as-a-new-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-french-fencing-federation-introduces-lightsaber-dueling-as-a-new-sport","title":{"rendered":"The French Fencing Federation introduces lightsaber dueling as a new sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-french-fencing-federation-introduces-lightsaber-dueling-as-a-new-sport2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From pop culture channel InqPOP:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Inspired by the Star Wars movie franchise, this newly recognized sport by the French is different from how the other weapons are used in fencing. For one, it requires combatants to pull their sword from behind themselves before they can try to strike their opponent. It also has rounds that last three minutes. And the first duelist who will reach 15 victories will be announced as the winner.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/pop.inquirer.net\/71345\/french-fencing-federation-lightsaber-dueling-new-sport\">https:\/\/pop.inquirer.net\/71345\/french-fencing-federation-lig...-new-sport<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From pop culture channel InqPOP: Inspired by the Star Wars movie franchise, this newly recognized sport by the French is different from how the other weapons are used in fencing. For one, it requires combatants to pull their sword from behind themselves before they can try to strike their opponent. It also has rounds that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88200","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}