{"id":2430,"date":"2009-02-13T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2009-02-13T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:53:14","slug":"the-friday-fight-florentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fight: Florentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will McLean writes: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/sca-errata-sheet-florentine-and-two.html\">Florentine was first used as a term for a weapon style<\/a> within the Society for Creative Anachronism circa A.S.2 (1970 AD) to describe a fighting style involving the use of two pounds of spinach and a pair of salad forks. Later the spinach was either discarded or eaten (feasts often started late in those days) and the term came to denote any two-weapon style, or, alternatively &#8216;what medieval knights would have called fighting in tournaments with two weapons at once if they had ever done such a thing, which they didn&#8217;t.&#8217; The style is sometimes referred to as &#8216;Too many swords.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KsbRRVdBuZE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For those interested in fighting with too many swords, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealmightyguru.com\/Boffer\/Guide-Florentine.html\">Lukrain offers a number tips.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will McLean writes: &#8220;Florentine was first used as a term for a weapon style within the Society for Creative Anachronism circa A.S.2 (1970 AD) to describe a fighting style involving the use of two pounds of spinach and a pair of salad forks. Later the spinach was either discarded or eaten (feasts often started late &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Friday Fight: Florentine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1686,2724],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-live-steel-combat","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}