{"id":3194,"date":"2013-11-03T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2017-10-18T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T04:04:32","slug":"kiss-of-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"Kali in the Movies: Kiss of the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured arts: Jet Li does not specifically have a kali background, but several scenes feature stick fighting techniques. Awkwardly inserted, karateka show little adeptness with sticks while Jet Li just moves really really fast. The &#8220;40 stick fighters (in gi) against one&#8221; is interesting.. sort of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stick_vs_many.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stick_vs_many.jpg\" alt=\"Stick_vs_many\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overview: Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 6.5 (of 10) &#8211; Pretty standard B-film chop-socky with lots of setup fight scenes and unimaginative development. Boy meets girl, girl is threatened by criminal, martial arts erupts. Like that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0O2EEI00cA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Re-produced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured arts: Jet Li does not specifically have a kali background, but several scenes feature stick fighting techniques. Awkwardly inserted, karateka show little adeptness with sticks while Jet Li just moves really really fast. The &#8220;40 stick fighters (in gi) against one&#8221; is interesting.. sort of. Overview: Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3194\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}