{"id":11693,"date":"2012-06-19T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2012-06-19T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T02:55:56","slug":"the-origin-of-the-practice-of-sword-swallowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/the-origin-of-the-practice-of-sword-swallowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Practice of Sword Swallowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sword-swallowing-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11694\" title=\"sword swallowing facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sword-swallowing-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sword-swallowing-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sword-swallowing-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sword swallowing was first introduced in India in 2000 BC where it was a demonstration of divinity and power. From there, it spread to China and Japan for theatrical performance.\u00a0 Today, in order to become an approved member of the Sword Swallowers Association International (yes there is one), they require you to swallow a blade between 15 and 20 inches in length.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"how people swallow swords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/how-people-swallow-swords-in-stage-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sword swallowing was first introduced in India in 2000 BC where it was a demonstration of divinity and power. From there, it spread to China and Japan for theatrical performance.\u00a0 Today, in order to become an approved member of the Sword Swallowers Association International (yes there is one), they require you to swallow a blade between 15 and 20 inches [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[724,2755],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-sword-swallowing","tag-sword-swallowing-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}