{"id":5644,"date":"2016-06-06T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2017-10-20T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T04:44:45","slug":"pinoy-blacksmith-in-historys-blade-making-competition-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5644","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy Blacksmith in History\u2019s Blade-making Competition: Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New Jersey-based blacksmith Ryu Lim, a contestant on History Channel\u2019s blade-making competition series \u201cForged in Fire\u201d, said he was \u201coriginally from a small humble village located at the foot of a sleeping volcano in one of the northern islands of the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been helping around at the local smithies since I was 8 years old, moving charcoal and working the bellows. I was first permitted to pick up a hammer at around the age of 9 and forged my first sword from mild steel at the age of 10,\u201d Lim recalled in a recent interview&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ph\/entertainment\/tv\/pinoy-blacksmith-shines-in-history%E2%80%99s-blade-making-competition\/ar-AAfVRcG\">Click here for the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the show &#8220;forged in fire&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eIJl0s0PJRk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Reproduced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New Jersey-based blacksmith Ryu Lim, a contestant on History Channel\u2019s blade-making competition series \u201cForged in Fire\u201d, said he was \u201coriginally from a small humble village located at the foot of a sleeping volcano in one of the northern islands of the Philippines.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been helping around at the local smithies since I was 8 years old, moving charcoal and working the bellows. I was first permitted to pick up a hammer at around the age of 9 and forged my first sword from mild steel at the age of 10,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5644\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5646,"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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6889,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/6889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}