{"id":3703,"date":"2008-11-19T01:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/19\/vintage-swordplay-3\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T02:37:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T02:37:19","slug":"vintage-swordplay-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/19\/vintage-swordplay-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage swordplay #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sword_guy2.jpg\" alt=\"sword_guy2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another vintage find courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/theotherandrew.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Other Andrew<\/a>. (Thanks, Andrew!) The tag on this photo revealed the model to be one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicbodybuilders.com\/stevewengryn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Wengryn<\/a> and since I&#8217;m not an expert on these beefcake types this was news to me. A swift search also revealed that Steve was a popular model in the 1950s and posed for Bruce of LA, among others, a photographer whose work was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/06\/lets-get-physical-bruce-of-los-angeles-and-tom-of-finland\/\">mentioned here<\/a> recently. And sure enough, this isn&#8217;t the only picture of Steve with a sword, there&#8217;s also this photo of him posing with an \u00e9p\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sword_guy3.jpg\" alt=\"sword_guy3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-men-with-swords-archive\/\">The men with swords archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another vintage find courtesy of The Other Andrew. (Thanks, Andrew!) The tag on this photo revealed the model to be one Steve Wengryn and since I&#8217;m not an expert on these beefcake types this was news to me. A swift search also revealed that Steve was a popular model in the 1950s and posed for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/19\/vintage-swordplay-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage swordplay #3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,5,12],"tags":[64,63],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-candy","category-gay","category-photography","tag-beefcake","tag-swords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-XJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}