{"id":3474,"date":"2014-02-17T21:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T05:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2017-10-18T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T04:35:04","slug":"golok-weapon-of-pencak-silat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"Golok, Weapon of Pencak Silat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A golok is similar to a machete and originated in Southeast Asia. As with many of the weapons from Silat, the golok was originally a farming tool used to cut brush and branches- it is particularly useful due to its shape, as its less likely to to get stuck in green wood then a machete, which is usually flat-sided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Golok.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3468\" alt=\"Golok\" src=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Golok.jpg\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, goloks are made with a softer temper then most other knives, making them easier to sharpen in the field but also less likely to hold their edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Unknown2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3477\" alt=\"Unknown\" src=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Unknown2.jpeg\" width=\"169\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: wikipedia<br \/>\n(Re-produced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A golok is similar to a machete and originated in Southeast Asia. As with many of the weapons from Silat, the golok was originally a farming tool used to cut brush and branches- it is particularly useful due to its shape, as its less likely to to get stuck in green wood then a machete, which is usually flat-sided. Traditionally, goloks are made with a softer temper then most other knives, making them easier to sharpen in the field but also less likely to hold their edge. Source: wikipedia (Re-produced&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3474\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3478,"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":[5,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474"}],"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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6773,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/6773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}