{"id":862,"date":"2015-03-26T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:42:12","slug":"coming-to-grips-with-the-impalement-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Grips with the Impalement Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/arts\/circus-arts\/knife-throwing.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/ba\/Rhinestone_Roper_Humboldt_County_Fair.jpg\/320px-Rhinestone_Roper_Humboldt_County_Fair.jpg\" alt=\"A woman fastened to a spinning wheel has knives thrown at her. \" width=\"299\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wheel of Death: It&#8217;s a living. Photo by Ellin Beltz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No one can say when people first started throwing knives, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that it was the result of boredom, desperation or an ill-thought-out dare. \u00a0How we got from there to the Wheel of Death involves a journey from Africa, through the Wild West shows and circuses of the 1800s, and finally to our own \u00a0backyards.<\/p>\n<p>Knives hardly sail through the air like arrows, but throwing them is not a difficult as it might seem. So grab your weapon of choice and join me as I explain &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/arts\/circus-arts\/knife-throwing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Knife Throwing Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can say when people first started throwing knives, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that it was the result of boredom, desperation or an ill-thought-out dare. \u00a0How we got from there to the Wheel of Death involves a journey from Africa, through the Wild West shows and circuses of the 1800s, and finally to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming to Grips with the Impalement Arts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,31,74,3,32,93,207],"tags":[995,997,996,993,662,998,994],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-how-to","category-physics","category-science","category-sports","category-weapons","category-weird","tag-david-adamovich","tag-full-spin","tag-half-spin","tag-impalement-act","tag-momentum","tag-no-spin","tag-wheel-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}