{"id":8550,"date":"2005-01-28T01:54:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T23:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/28\/self-defense-against-a-stick\/"},"modified":"2005-04-11T22:39:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T19:39:22","slug":"self-defense-against-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/28\/self-defense-against-a-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-defense against a stick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve been watching Monty Python trying to learn how to defend yourself against an attacker with a pointy stick, you probably had a good laugh, but never learned the technique. Well, here<\/a> is a nice explanation with pictures how defend yourself using a walking stick or an umbrella. Not, by any means, as funny as Monty Python’s episode, but way more useful (read: does not involve guns, tigers, or 16 tunn weights).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve been watching Monty Python trying to learn how to defend yourself against an attacker with a pointy stick, you probably had a good laugh, but never learned the technique. Well, here is a nice explanation with pictures how defend yourself using a walking stick or an umbrella. Not, by any means, as funny … Continue reading Self-defense against a stick<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7519,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/22\/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail\/","url_meta":{"origin":8550,"position":0},"title":"Monty Python and the Holy Grail","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"For the fifth time or so we've watched \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" today on DVD at Hazard's place. 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