{"id":4910,"date":"2018-05-07T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjamincheah.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2018-05-07T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:30:34","slug":"a-high-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/?p=4910","title":{"rendered":"A High Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmarb4rLeDSqEBmFeh4mzxaAndkmvzo4hnABngh9eTVp93\/image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our art is<\/p>\n<p>The rending of flesh;<br \/>\nThe breaking of bones;<br \/>\nThe tearing of nerves;<br \/>\nThe domination of wills.<\/p>\n<p>Our art is<\/p>\n<p>Steel scribing perfect arcs;<br \/>\nWood smoking on impact;<br \/>\nSurvival in a lightning shuffle;<br \/>\nStrength through motion.<\/p>\n<p>Our art is<\/p>\n<p>Eight angles of attack;<br \/>\nEight million methods of combat;<br \/>\nInfinite ways to wrestle, crush, maim, kill;<br \/>\nOne blinding road to life.<\/p>\n<p>Come and dance.<br \/>\nThe riddle of<br \/>\nSteel<br \/>\nWood<br \/>\nBone<br \/>\nBrains<br \/>\nAwaits.<br \/>\nCome and see<br \/>\nwhere the soul resides<br \/>\nat the point of the blade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmNPjQAkaGvtrys87bjqAghP62AqHAB7edWEt44bH8yfwD\/Cheah%20Git%20San%20Red.jpg\" alt=\"Cheah Git San Red.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To see this high art in fiction, check out my latest novel\u00a0<a title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hammer-Witches-Covenant-Chronicles-Book-ebook\/dp\/B0799NKB2H\" rel=\"noopener\">HAMMER OF THE WITCHES<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our art is The rending of flesh; The breaking of bones; The tearing of nerves; The domination of wills. Our art is Steel scribing perfect arcs; Wood smoking on impact; Survival in a lightning shuffle; Strength through motion. Our art is Eight angles of attack; Eight million methods of combat; Infinite ways to wrestle, crush, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[240,253,341],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-pulprev","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}