{"id":3763,"date":"2016-06-24T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:36:57","slug":"memes-v-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/memes-v-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMES v. TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meme from the news media: \u201cRepublicans Block Gun Reform\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The truth: The Republicans couldn\u2019t stomach the loss of Constitutional due process the Democrats wanted to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The meme from the Democrats: \u201cRepublicans Want to Give Guns to Terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God almighty, how stupid do those people think we are?<\/p>\n<p>The most rational take I\u2019ve seen on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/gun-control-beaten-back-again-now-what\" target=\"_blank\">latest news is from our friend Dave Workman<\/a> at Second Amendment Foundation.\u00a0 In the spirit of total disclosure, I\u2019ve been a member of the board of trustees of the Second Amendment Foundation for many years\u2026and I\u2019m proud of Dave\u2019s cogent analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who expressed your concerns to your representatives on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meme from the news media: \u201cRepublicans Block Gun Reform\u201d The truth: The Republicans couldn\u2019t stomach the loss of Constitutional due process the Democrats wanted to pass. The meme from the Democrats: \u201cRepublicans Want to Give Guns to Terrorists.\u201d God almighty, how stupid do those people think we are? The most rational take I\u2019ve seen [&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-3763","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\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/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=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}