{"id":312,"date":"2009-06-19T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-06-19T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:51:48","slug":"urgent-notice-on-the-cutting-edge-of-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/urgent-notice-on-the-cutting-edge-of-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT NOTICE: ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF STUPIDITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and other practical working folk appreciate folding knives that can easily be opened one-handed.\u00a0 One hand holding a heavy sack of grain, for instance, while another slices it open.\u00a0 There are some citified wimps, however, who haven\u2019t gotten past their 1950-era fear of \u201cswitchblades.\u201d While today there are ingenious \u201cassisted opening\u201d knives with a mechanical advantage that makes them easier for arthritic old folks to use.\u00a0 Naturally, the wimps want them banned.<br \/>\nTake a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kniferights.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=76&amp;Itemid=150\" target=\"_blank\">THIS<\/a> and express your views please before the deadline.<br \/>\nTo see how far the madness can go, check <a href=\"http:\/\/newpointknives.co.uk\/media\/Why_knives_are_so_dangerous.htm\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/newpointknives.co.uk\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newpointknives.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Point Knives<\/a> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article6501720.ece\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/crime\/2009\/06\/knife-arrests-means-its-all-full-at-the-inn.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> from England.<br \/>\nWe all know enough not to \u201crun with scissors,\u201d but we need a bayonet charge of lucidly-expressed outrage to our political representatives to put a stop to this sort of stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and other practical working folk appreciate folding knives that can easily be opened one-handed.\u00a0 One hand holding a heavy sack of grain, for instance, while another slices it open.\u00a0 There are some citified wimps, however, who haven\u2019t gotten past their 1950-era fear of \u201cswitchblades.\u201d While today there are ingenious \u201cassisted opening\u201d knives with a [&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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/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=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}