{"id":2235,"date":"2013-03-28T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2013-03-28T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:18:21","slug":"jack-spirkos-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/jack-spirkos-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"JACK  SPIRKO\u2019S  PODCAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019ve enjoyed Jack Spirko\u2019s free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Survival Podcast<\/a> for some time, and my significant other is a huge fan of his show. \u00a0Jack recognizes that it ain\u2019t just a \u201cPanic In the Year Zero\u201d apocalypse scenario that justifies being prepared for bad things\u2026it\u2019s life itself that constantly reminds us we need to be so prepared.\u00a0 Whether you live in hurricane country, earthquake country, tornado country, flood country, or wherever, Mother Nature can deliver some nasty large-scale surprises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No matter where you make your abode, life can also give you some smaller-scale surprises which are no less terrifying if you aren\u2019t prepared to handle them.\u00a0 It was with that in mind that he recently interviewed me for the show: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalpodcast.com\/episode-1094-massad-ayoob-on-lethal-force-aftermath\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thesurvivalpodcast.com\/episode-1094-massad-ayoob-on-lethal-force-aftermath<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In going on six and a half decades on this planet, I\u2019ve learned that really bad things are most likely to happen to people who aren\u2019t prepared for them.\u00a0 From medical emergency to a cutoff of power and food supply to self-defense, preparedness seems to downgrade bad things from \u201chorrible disaster\u201d to \u201cmemorable adventure you\u2019d just as soon not have had to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you\u2019re not familiar with Spirko\u2019s podcast, check it out.\u00a0 He strikes me as A Thinking Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve enjoyed Jack Spirko\u2019s free Survival Podcast for some time, and my significant other is a huge fan of his show. \u00a0Jack recognizes that it ain\u2019t just a \u201cPanic In the Year Zero\u201d apocalypse scenario that justifies being prepared for bad things\u2026it\u2019s life itself that constantly reminds us we need to be so prepared.\u00a0 Whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preparedness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/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=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}