{"id":29892,"date":"2015-08-22T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29892"},"modified":"2015-08-22T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T10:34:25","slug":"an-eye-opening-fact-ive-learned-from-my-book-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/an-eye-opening-fact-ive-learned-from-my-book-research\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eye-Opening Fact I’ve Learned From My Book Research…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A friend asked me this recently and my initial response was, “What, only one?”<\/em><\/p>\n

But it made me think I should share a few of them with you here on the blog—starting with something fun for the weekend.<\/p>\n

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I was doing some research into the Burgundian knights, as part of my background research for\u00a0The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong>, The Wall of Night<\/a> Book Two, and I was awed to find out that they were trained to vault onto and off their horses in full armor!<\/p>\n

From my reading I believe this fact was genuine (and probably where the “vaulting horse” in modern-day gymnastics originates—see, I bet you’ve never thought of gymnastics as a ‘martial art’ before \ud83d\ude09 ) and that the Korean armored ‘knights’ or warriors also developed similar skills.<\/p>\n

Watch this space — more eye-opening facts (warning: some a lot less fun) to come. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend asked me this recently and my initial response was, “What, only one?” But it made me think I should share a few of them with you here on the blog—starting with something fun for the weekend. I was doing some research into the Burgundian knights, as part of my background research for\u00a0The Gathering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}