Denying access to Wordpress xmlrpc.php via Nginx Server block

your_amazing_site.com.conf

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name your_amazing_site.com www.your_amazing_site.com;
  root   /var/www/your_amazing_site.com;
  
  index index.php;
  
  access_log /var/log/nginx/your_amazing_site.com.access.log;
  error_log  /var/log/nginx/your_amazing_site.com.error.log;
  
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
  }
  
  # Return 403 error for requests to xmlrpc.php
  location = /xmlrpc.php {
    deny all;
    access_log off;
    log_not_found off;
  }

  # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on unix sock
  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php56-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
}