{"id":9599,"date":"2011-07-26T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:50:01","slug":"the-unsheathed-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/the-unsheathed-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unsheathed Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/140.jpg?resize=136%2C177\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/140.jpg?w=194&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/140.jpg?resize=74%2C96&amp;ssl=1 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;Saya (Scabbards&#8217;) by Stan Sakai (of Usagi Yojimbo), a folk singer is first heard singing,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rain will rust its edge,\u00a0and the sheen will fade away!<br \/>\nThe keenest blades are sheathed, and that&#8217;s where they should stay.<br \/>\nSo please, Mr. Samurai, don&#8217;t draw your sword today!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miyomoto Usagi encounters a quarrelsome samurai,<br \/>\nwho insists on fighting him over a small misunderstanding,<br \/>\nwhen his scabbard accidentally bumps into his while walking by.<br \/>\nAs he wouldn&#8217;t accept an apology and let it slide,\u00a0they had to duel.<\/p>\n<p>To the samurai&#8217;s surprise, after exchanging some strokes,<br \/>\njust when he thought he had stabbed Miyomoto,<br \/>\nhe realised the latter had with the most amazing skill,<br \/>\n&#8216;absorbed&#8217; his sword perfectly into his empty scabbard by his waist, rendering him swordless.<br \/>\nHe then pleaded for mercy, which of course, the hero gives.<\/p>\n<p>And at the end of the story, the singer sings the song again.<br \/>\nIndeed, time will wear out rough edge, the the keenest to fight should never.<br \/>\nWonderful short story about non-violence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Saya (Scabbards&#8217;) by Stan Sakai (of Usagi Yojimbo), a folk singer is first heard singing, The rain will rust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-violence","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}