{"id":40,"date":"2005-10-31T21:16:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-02-14T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T06:32:17","slug":"what-would-freud-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"What would Freud say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another one of my brother Dan holding the preposterously large and heavy sword for which Cloud is so famous.<\/p>\n<p><center><a HREF=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/ff7c.jpg\"><img SRC=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/ff7c.jpg\" WIDTH=300\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the sword really is heavy, too.  The core is made from an old snowboard and it has quite a bit of heft to it.  Swinging this thing around is quite difficult, even though it&#8217;s just cardboard, duct tape, and part of a snowboard.  After taking a few swings with this you can get a sense of just how impossible it would be to do the same with one made from solid <i><b>steel<\/b><\/i>.   Once you feel your arms begin to fatigue from just holding it up, you will realize that by the time you were strong enough to really swing one crafted from steel (assuming that&#8217;s even possible), the weapon itself would be such a massive liability that fighting bare-handed would be a sensible alternative.  <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what Final Fantasy is about anyway.  Final Fantasy is about, you know, <i>fantasy<\/i>, and should be viewed as such.<\/p>\n<p>But even so: How <b>does<\/b> that skinny little guy keep from falling over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another one of my brother Dan holding the preposterously large and heavy sword for which Cloud is so famous. And the sword really is heavy, too. The core is made from an old snowboard and it has quite a bit of heft to it. Swinging this thing around is quite difficult, even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}