{"id":68,"date":"2007-03-14T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=15&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-03-14T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T13:09:30","slug":"mark-twain-on-duelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/mark-twain-on-duelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain on Duelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that Mark Twain had some instruction from a Fudebakudo master? This quotation shows that he understood the basic teachings of the art:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 8px 20px 4px\">&quot;I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-right: 20px\">&mdash;&nbsp;<em>Mark&nbsp;Twain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a class=\"fbd_link_external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twainquotes.com\/Duels.html\">Twain Quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that Mark Twain had some instruction from a Fudebakudo master? This quotation shows that he understood the basic teachings of the art: &quot;I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/mark-twain-on-duelling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Twain on Duelling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}