{"id":844509,"date":"2025-12-13T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24158464\/cool-sword-day-2024"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:08:10","slug":"happy-cool-sword-day-to-all-who-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/happy-cool-sword-day-to-all-who-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cool Sword Day to all who celebrate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Four images of fictional characters holding cool swords, oriented into four quadrants; clockwise, starting from the top left, it\u2019s Nightcrawler from X-Men \u201897 holding three swords (one with his tail), Cloud and Sephiroth from FF7 Rebirth each brandishing their extremely massive swords, Guts from the comic Berserk brandishing the greatsword called the Dragonslayer, and Link from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom holding the Master Sword\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/happy-cool-sword-day-to-all-who-celebrate.jpg\" \/><figcaption>Photo illustration by Will Joel\/Polygon | Images: Disney, Square Enix, Hakusensha\/Dark Horse Comics, Nintendo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unsheathe and celebrate <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24158464\/cool-sword-day-2024\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24158464\/cool-sword-day-2024\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo illustration by Will Joel\/Polygon | Images: Disney, Square Enix, Hakusensha\/Dark Horse Comics, Nintendo Unsheathe and celebrate Continue reading&hellip; Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Cool Sword Day to all who celebrate! 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