{"id":93079,"date":"2019-07-03T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/female-wins-the-longsword-competition-at-the-world-invitationals"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:03:32","slug":"female-wins-the-longsword-competition-at-the-world-invitationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/female-wins-the-longsword-competition-at-the-world-invitationals","title":{"rendered":"Female wins The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"Female wins The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3X3wJamiEMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Modern day female longsword expert wins the The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals.<\/p>\n<p>Trained in European martial arts as she puts it (When you think \u2018martial arts\u2019 it usually brings up images of Far East fighting styles, so this was interesting to hear European sword fighting described in this way), and using swords that she herself designed (specifically for her style of fighting and longsword competition), Samantha Swords is a girl after my own \u2018Geek\u2019 heart.<\/p>\n<p>See her video interview below complete with sword play demonstrations and training\u2026 <iframe title=\"Female wins The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals (2)\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3X3wJamiEMw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern day female longsword expert wins the The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals. Trained in European martial arts as she puts it (When you think \u2018martial arts\u2019 it usually brings up images of Far East fighting styles, so this was interesting to hear European sword fighting described in this way), and using swords that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93079","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=93079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}