{"id":41096,"date":"2021-03-03T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=41096"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:35:25","slug":"know-your-weapons-the-macuahuitl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/know-your-weapons-the-macuahuitl\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: The Macuahuitl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Besides the various types of hawks and war axes, this is definitely one of my favorite ancient CQ Weapons.<\/h2>\n<h2>Brutal and Practical.<\/h2>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/7437dc8bd4e52cdf776356231ac2467b.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=info&amp;w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Aztec warriors wielding macanas (macahuitl), which are oak swords or clubs fitted with rows of obsidian blades. Aztec warriors used these weapons to slash, inflicting long bleeding wounds, or sever, as when they decapitated a mare Cort\u00e9s\u2019s party brought. Cort\u00e9s did battle with thousands of Aztec warriors during his campaign of exploration in Central America.\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2021\/02\/27\/macuahuitl\/\">Macuahuitl \u2014 Weapons and Warfare<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aztec warriors wielding macanas (macahuitl), which are oak swords or clubs fitted with rows of obsidian blades. Aztec warriors used these weapons to slash, inflicting long bleeding wounds, or sever, as when they decapitated a mare Cort\u00e9s\u2019s party brought. Cort\u00e9s did battle with thousands of Aztec warriors during his campaign of exploration in Central America.\u00a0[\u2026]&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,6096,6135,24],"tags":[8930,8931,8932,8933,8934,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}