{"id":3630,"date":"2006-08-15T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/08\/15\/tanto.html"},"modified":"2006-08-15T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:54:57","slug":"tanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/08\/15\/tanto\/","title":{"rendered":"tanto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katana\">katana<\/a> (the long Japanese sword used by samurai) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wakizashi\">wakizashi<\/a> (the shorter second sword also used by samurai), but I was previously unaware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tant\u014d\">tant&#333;<\/a>, which was the even shorter knife or dagger that was sometimes used with the other two.  Wikipedia says, among other things, that it \"was a favorite weapon of the ninja.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was familiar with the katana (the long Japanese sword used by samurai) and the wakizashi (the shorter second sword also used by samurai), but I was previously unaware of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}