{"id":110,"date":"2008-03-21T20:58:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/2008\/03\/21\/medieval-madness-at-the-royal-ontario-museum-5\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T20:58:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T01:58:46","slug":"medieval-madness-at-the-royal-ontario-museum-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/medieval-madness-at-the-royal-ontario-museum-5\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Medieval Madness&#8217; at the Royal Ontario Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2008_march_aemmarom_12.jpg\" title=\"'Medieval Madness' at the Royal Ontario Museum\" alt=\"'Medieval Madness' at the Royal Ontario Museum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holding the tips for safety, Trevor allows visiting schoolchildren to hold blunt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aemma.org\" title=\"The Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts\">AEMMA<\/a> training weapons. Historically, and arming sword would weigh between two and three pounds. The arming swords AEMMA uses for practice (made by Toronto swordmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swordcrafts.com\/\" title=\"Charles Jevon's Swordcrafts\">Charles Jevons<\/a>, based upon the Royal Armories MS I.33 sword) have aircraft aluminum blades, allowing a thicker profile (less dangerous) for the same balance and weigh in a 2.75 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding the tips for safety, Trevor allows visiting schoolchildren to hold blunt AEMMA training weapons. Historically, and arming sword would weigh between two and three pounds. The arming swords AEMMA uses for practice (made by Toronto swordmaker Charles Jevons, based upon the Royal Armories MS I.33 sword) have aircraft aluminum blades, allowing a thicker profile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/medieval-madness-at-the-royal-ontario-museum-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Medieval Madness&#8217; at the Royal Ontario Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}