{"id":1049,"date":"2010-11-03T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:09:38","slug":"hope-and-changefor-gun-owners-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/hope-and-changefor-gun-owners-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE AND CHANGE\u2026FOR GUN OWNERS\u2019 CIVIL RIGHTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Democrats will spin Harry Reid&#8217;s victory and cling to it like the American people allegedly cling to their Bibles and guns, but I see a huge silver lining here for conservatives. &#8230; Yes, Reid would have made a great trophy on the GOP&#8217;s mantle. But cheer up: He&#8217;s even better as a leader of Senate Democrats &#8212; depending on your point of view.&#8221; &#8211;columnist Stephen Spruiell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;President Obama listed his accomplishments in office on Urban Radio Tuesday.<br \/>\nNo one gives him enough credit.   Barack Obama took something that was in terrible<br \/>\nshape and brought it back from the brink of disaster &#8230;. and that something was<br \/>\nthe Republican Party.&#8221;&#8211;comedian Argus Hamilton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to the readers who sent along the quotes above. I suspect that the President and Harry Reid alike realize how much Reid\u2019s pro-gun stance contributed to his success. It\u2019s a much needed reminder that you don\u2019t need to be a registered Republican to believe in the civil rights of firearms owners.<br \/>\nBut, hey, I\u2019m no political pundit.  That\u2019s why I\u2019d like to ask all of you reading this to contribute YOUR thoughts in the comments section below.  What\u2019s YOUR take on the election results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democrats will spin Harry Reid&#8217;s victory and cling to it like the American people allegedly cling to their Bibles and guns, but I see a huge silver lining here for conservatives. &#8230; Yes, Reid would have made a great trophy on the GOP&#8217;s mantle. But cheer up: He&#8217;s even better as a leader of Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-1049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-election"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}