{"id":153,"date":"2012-03-22T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-06-27T05:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T05:14:49","slug":"its-nearly-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/its-nearly-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nearly time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, to be precise &#8211; a date has been set for the opening of batch 19 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/custom-katana.html\">click on the custom Katana page<\/a> to see the countdown!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I have been updating the SBG custom Katana pages (as it kind of grew &#8216;organically&#8217; over the years, it had become a bit confusing) and hopefully making some things a bit clearer, as well as providing all the various links (like to this very blog and the FAQ) all in one spot. Was actually quite interesting as I found some bad links and some information I had forgotten I had even put on there (as a webmaster, THAT is definitely a sign that an update is in order if ever there is one! Lol).<\/p>\n<p>Batch 18 &#8211; the one sent to the forge on the 25th of November is going out to my agent this week, and as promised here are a few pics from the forge of some random blades! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 143px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070042-300x107.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722601561542361090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070045-300x191.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722601783448211618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070048.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070048-300x151.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722601922099775394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1070058-300x249.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722602173712728578\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite a bit of prep work from now, plus batch 18 incoming and I don&#8217;t know how many emails to get to (I prefer to deal with SBG custom enquiries shortly before a new batch opens as I want to provide the most up to date information) so if you are waiting on an email from me, please bear with me just a bit longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, to be precise &#8211; a date has been set for the opening of batch 19 click on the custom Katana page to see the countdown! In the meantime I have been updating the SBG custom Katana pages (as it kind of grew &#8216;organically&#8217; over the years, it had become \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/its-nearly-time\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sbg-custom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}