{"id":3188,"date":"2015-05-25T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2015-05-25T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:59:41","slug":"memorial-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/memorial-day-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMORIAL  DAY  2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this somber day of observance, our friends at Galco remind us of a quote from General George S. Patton: \u201cIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men that died. Rather that we should thank God that such men lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my colleagues at Second Amendment Foundation remind us of the seminal moment \u201cthe Revolutionary War was ignited by the battles of Lexington and Concord, when British troops under General Thomas Gage were dispatched to seize arms and ammunition belonging to the colonial militia, and destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exercising the rights our forebears died to preserve seems an appropriate way to celebrate Memorial Day.\u00a0 Before the day is over I\u2019ll join a \u201cshooting party\u201d at the range of Herman Gunter, III.\u00a0 I hope you, too, can get some meaningful time in to honor those who died to preserve the American way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this somber day of observance, our friends at Galco remind us of a quote from General George S. Patton: \u201cIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men that died. Rather that we should thank God that such men lived.\u201d And my colleagues at Second Amendment Foundation remind us of the seminal moment \u201cthe [&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-3188","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\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/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=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}