{"id":9435,"date":"2013-08-15T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2013-08-15T00:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T04:53:44","slug":"hollywoods-blacksmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/hollywoods-blacksmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s Blacksmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081313_2118_HollywoodsB1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James McLauchlin wrote about Hollywood&#8217;s go-to blacksmith:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Swatton grew up reading fantasy and science fiction books. He used to visualize the armor and weaponry from the stories.<\/li>\n<li>An enthusiast, he was unable to afford replicas and so he began to build his own.<\/li>\n<li>This turned into a business called The Sword and the Stone which can charge up to $100,000 for armor projects.<\/li>\n<li>The swords in Pirates of the Caribbean and the Infinity Gauntlet from Thor were made by Swatton.<\/li>\n<li>But his expertise isn&#8217;t limited to the film industry. Rihanna, Katy Perry and Britney Spears have worn his armor in music videos.<\/li>\n<li>Swatton can work up to 18 hours a day and drink 4 gallons of water without needing a bathroom break \u2013 the fluid is sweated out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Swatton, other films his work has appeared in, the celebrities he&#8217;s met, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/08\/hollywood-blacksmith-tony-swatton\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/08\/hollywood-blacksmith-tony-swatton\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James McLauchlin wrote about Hollywood&#8217;s go-to blacksmith: Tony Swatton grew up reading fantasy and science fiction books. He used to visualize the armor and weaponry from the stories. An enthusiast, he was unable to afford replicas and so he began to build his own. This turned into a business called The Sword and the Stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9435","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\/08\/081313_2118_HollywoodsB1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","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=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}