{"id":15149,"date":"2011-02-03T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2011-02-03T01:01:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:01:44","slug":"found-the-sword-of-the-pirate-blackbeard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/found-the-sword-of-the-pirate-blackbeard\/","title":{"rendered":"Davey Jones Relents Lost Treasure, The Sword of Blackbeard the Pirate Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This man,  Edward Teach, a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackbeard\" class=\"external external_icon\">Blackbeard<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeard-pirate-movie.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lit cannon fuses make the man.\" width=\"450\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeard-pirate-movie.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeard-pirate-movie-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>&#8230;was the master of dramatic presentation. Seriously, he could give Batman lessons.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blackbeard<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110114\/us_yblog_thelookout\/was-this-blackbeards-sword\" class=\"external external_icon\"> cultivated a ferocious appearance<\/a> to seem even more menacing: a long dark beard, numerous  knives, swords and pistols strapped to his chest &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncmaritime.org\/Blackbeard\/default.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">even lighted fuses in his hair<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we have the remnants of his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110114\/us_yblog_thelookout\/was-this-blackbeards-sword\" class=\"external external_icon\">sword<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110114\/us_yblog_thelookout\/was-this-blackbeards-sword\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeardssword.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"arrrrrggghhhhh!\" width=\"277\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeardssword.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackbeardssword-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s one of the latest finds aboard the remains of the ship the Queen Anne&#8217;s Revenge, known at one time to be the flagship of Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard. The vessel ran aground on a North Carolina sandbar in 1718 and was abandoned; modern archaeologists have been excavating the shipwreck for more than a decade. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110114\/us_yblog_thelookout\/was-this-blackbeards-sword\" class=\"external external_icon\">design and ornamentation of this newest discovery have led the researchers to believe it likely belonged to the notorious pirate himself<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>In other media bonus!<\/strong><br \/>\nIan McShane is to be Blackbeard in the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean flick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The thing when you play characters is, <a href=\"http:\/\/spinoff.comicbookresources.com\/2011\/02\/02\/pirates-4-star-ian-mcshane-on-blackbeard-and-talk-of-deadwood\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you give off more than anything,<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said in response to a question about how he prepared to give life to the role of the legendary Blackbeard. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the outfit on and [the creative team] has talked about you being bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153villainous\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [the work has] been done for you if you play it right. So you play it a little different. You let it take over.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110114\/us_yblog_thelookout\/was-this-blackbeards-sword\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoo news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/spinoff.comicbookresources.com\/2011\/02\/02\/pirates-4-star-ian-mcshane-on-blackbeard-and-talk-of-deadwood\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">spinoff online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This man, Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard&#8230; &#8230;was the master of dramatic presentation. Seriously, he could give Batman lessons. Blackbeard cultivated a ferocious appearance to seem even more menacing: a long dark beard, numerous knives, swords and pistols strapped to his chest &#8212; even lighted fuses in his hair. Now we have the remnants of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[2778,3778,3887,3780,346,3779,3888,1406,3775,526,36,3886,3774,1106],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-usa","tag-archaeologists","tag-blackbeard","tag-booty","tag-edward-teach","tag-found","tag-hilt","tag-ian-mcshane","tag-lost-and-found","tag-pirates","tag-pirates-peanut-pirates","tag-quotables","tag-shipwreck","tag-swords","tag-the-art-of-being-badass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15494,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}