{"id":108,"date":"2010-09-07T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/09\/07\/storyboard-scene-from-the-secret-history-of-the-mongols\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:23:37","slug":"storyboard-scene-from-the-secret-history-of-the-mongols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/09\/07\/storyboard-scene-from-the-secret-history-of-the-mongols\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Machmer: Storyboard Scene from &#8220;The Secret History of the Mongols&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the\u00a012th century text\u00a0&#8220;Secret History of the Mongols,&#8221; commissioned by Genghis Khan, a scene is described in which a warrior hit in the neck by an arrow is brought back to camp by a fellow solider. Mongols often used poisoned arrows, so, it was customary to suck the blood from arrow wounds &#8212; in this case the second person supports the first while sucking and then spitting out his blood. This scene must have been startling enough to have been included in the History.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TPR1qNxJygI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/nhv-fPugVjU\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2010-11-29+at+10.52.12+PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TPR1qNxJygI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/nhv-fPugVjU\/s640\/Screen+shot+2010-11-29+at+10.52.12+PM.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[storyboards are \u00a0fast greyscale sketches; as a key shot this one has a few more details]<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a012th century text\u00a0&#8220;Secret History of the Mongols,&#8221; commissioned by Genghis Khan, a scene is described in which a warrior hit in the neck by an arrow is brought back to camp by a fellow solider. Mongols often used poisoned arrows, so, it was customary to suck the blood from arrow wounds &#8212; in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-machmer","category-mongolian","category-storyboards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}