{"id":90610,"date":"2013-05-27T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90610"},"modified":"2013-05-27T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:48:48","slug":"bartitsu-the-sherlock-holmes-way-of-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90610","title":{"rendered":"Bartitsu: The Sherlock Holmes Way of Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324659404578501101650179998.html?mod=trending_now_3\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the guy swung at Mark Donnelly, his only means of defense was a black umbrella\u2014and a foppish one at that. But, ducking under a roundhouse punch, he jabbed the pointy end of the umbrella into the attacker&#8217;s gut, stopping him cold.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Donnelly, who is 43 years old and several inches short of 6 feet tall, then straightened his waistcoat, and the two men shook hands.<\/p>\n<p>The skirmish was a rare demonstration of Bartitsu, an obscure Victorian system of gentlemanly self-defense practiced by Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s legendary detective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can laugh, but in Britain, where their Olympic shooting teams have to practice overseas because the gun laws are so totalitarian, it&#8217;s all they&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. When the guy swung at Mark Donnelly, his only means of defense was a black umbrella\u2014and a foppish one at that. But, ducking under a roundhouse punch, he jabbed the pointy end of the umbrella into the attacker&#8217;s gut, stopping him cold. Mr. Donnelly, who is 43 years old and several inches short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90612,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610\/revisions\/90612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}