{"id":1896,"date":"2012-09-15T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-09-15T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T11:34:44","slug":"free-book-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/free-book-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE BOOK ALERT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friends, the Gun Digest folks, are debuting the second edition of my \u201cGun Digest Book of Concealed Carry,\u201d and y\u2019all can enter the lottery for a free copy:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gundigest.com\/gun-blogs\/books\/giveaway-win-concealed-carry-2nd-edition\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gundigest.com\/gun-blogs\/books\/giveaway-win-concealed-carry-2nd-edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, you may not like what I write, and if you got a free copy of one of my books might only use it to line the bottom of your birdcage.\u00a0 But, ya know what?\u00a0 If you click the link, you can just ignore me and the book and go directly to the comments, which present an absolutely fascinating spontaneous study of the mindset of armed citizens.\u00a0 The core theme that runs through it is that the good people responding are pretty much unanimous that they don\u2019t ever want to use it, but they\u2019re damn glad that concealed handgun is there\u2026just in case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You know how the anti-gunners are always saying that firearms are merely phallic symbols? Well, if you\u2019ve read my work in <em>Backwoods Home Magazine, <\/em>and elsewhere, you already know my response to that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">IF GUNS WERE PHALLIC SYMBOLS, <strong>NONE <\/strong>OF US GUYS WOULD <strong>EVER<\/strong> HAVE BOUGHT ONE WITH A TWO-INCH BARREL!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If someone really needs a sexually-related analogy for those of us who keep and carry firearms to protect ourselves and those within the mantle of our protection, they\u2019d be better served to say that those guns are to all of us as Viagra and Cialis are to men in my age demographic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are the <em>last <\/em>ones who ever want to need to resort to them\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2026 but we find it <em>very <\/em>reassuring to know they\u2019re there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends, the Gun Digest folks, are debuting the second edition of my \u201cGun Digest Book of Concealed Carry,\u201d and y\u2019all can enter the lottery for a free copy:\u00a0http:\/\/www.gundigest.com\/gun-blogs\/books\/giveaway-win-concealed-carry-2nd-edition Now, you may not like what I write, and if you got a free copy of one of my books might only use it to line [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/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=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}