{"id":3387,"date":"2015-11-30T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2015-11-30T22:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:34:28","slug":"post-thanksgiving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/post-thanksgiving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"POST-THANKSGIVING THANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritative warnings of <em>jihadi <\/em>attacks in our country did not come to pass, for which we can all give thanks. The only atrocity of the long Thanksgiving weekend was the home-grown nut case who killed three including a brave police officer, and wounded more, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.\u00a0 Too bad it couldn\u2019t have been nipped in the bud by an armed doctor, like the Pennsylvania case in 2014, where the gunman had 39 more bullets and a plan for mass murder when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/doctor-had-gun-wounded-hospital-shooter-pennsylvania-prosecutor-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">doc shot him down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We all have much to be thankful for.\u00a0 In my case, significant other and I and our families are all doing well health-wise.\u00a0 Classes have been full.\u00a0 We\u2019re home from our last \u201caway\u201d class of 2015, with only one left on this year\u2019s calendar at home base, a 40-hour advanced course that\u2019s always fun to teach.\u00a0 Gonna be more like \u201cshootin\u2019 real fast an\u2019 grapplin\u2019 with our buddies\u201d than work. My last trial for this year is done, too.\u00a0 Christmas season looks like something close to a vacation.\u00a0 We get to see how normal human beings live, for a few weeks.\u00a0 Looks as if we\u2019ll have time to shoot some matches, even.<\/p>\n<p>What did all y\u2019all find yourselves giving thanks for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritative warnings of jihadi attacks in our country did not come to pass, for which we can all give thanks. The only atrocity of the long Thanksgiving weekend was the home-grown nut case who killed three including a brave police officer, and wounded more, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.\u00a0 Too bad it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","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=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/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=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}