{"id":8284,"date":"2013-03-19T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2013-03-19T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:48:58","slug":"the-economics-of-being-a-saudi-arabian-swordsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-being-a-saudi-arabian-swordsman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Being A Saudi Arabian Swordsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031913_1132_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behind all those beheadings you hear about in Saudi Arabia, there are people trained in the art of cutting off people&#8217;s heads writes J. Dana Stuster. Their future is looking bleak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saudi Arabia is considering updating its laws to allow execution by firing squad.<\/li>\n<li>Swordsmen aren&#8217;t threatened because of a lack of demand. Indeed, the execution business in Saudi Arabia is booming. Rather, the problem is on the supply side. There aren&#8217;t enough reliable swordsmen.<\/li>\n<li>The government is having trouble recruiting more swordsmen because few people are interested in beheadings for a career.<\/li>\n<li>Overall Saudi Arabia&#8217;s current generation of swordsmen aren&#8217;t overly concerned. One has already received firearms training in preparation for the rule change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meet a Saudi Arabian executioner, his apprentice, and read about the religious barriers to allowing firing squads over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/03\/14\/saudi_swordsman_unconcerned_about_transition_from_beheadings\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/03\/14\/saudi_swordsman_unconcerned_about_transition_from_beheadings\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind all those beheadings you hear about in Saudi Arabia, there are people trained in the art of cutting off people&#8217;s heads writes J. Dana Stuster. Their future is looking bleak: Saudi Arabia is considering updating its laws to allow execution by firing squad. Swordsmen aren&#8217;t threatened because of a lack of demand. Indeed, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031913_1132_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}