{"id":4102,"date":"2017-02-16T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2017-02-16T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:58:52","slug":"end-of-an-era-but-stay-tuned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/end-of-an-era-but-stay-tuned\/","title":{"rendered":"END OF AN ERA \u2026BUT STAY TUNED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Duffy, founder and publisher of <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>magazine, has announced that the periodical will cease publishing its print version this year.\u00a0 Its sister publication, <em>Self-Reliance, <\/em>will remain as a hard copy magazine.\u00a0 The electronic version of <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>will continue, at least for now, online.\u00a0 So will this blog, and Jackie Clay\u2019s.\u00a0 Stay tuned for further updates.\u00a0 Dave\u2019s own statement on the matter is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/saying-goodbye-to-backwoods-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>ain\u2019t done yet by a long shot.\u00a0 Print edition production is scheduled to run through the November-December issue, and January-February is what\u2019s current now.\u00a0 Stay tuned for further announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Having been Firearms Editor for <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>for some twenty years and blogging here for almost nine, I\u2019m going to miss leafing through those dead tree pages and absorbing lots of useful knowledge from the many contributors who\u2019ve been there and done that.\u00a0 The anthologies that grew from that have proven to be precious resources, and I believe there will be more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Dave\u2019s magazine lasted a helluva lot longer than <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/92095\/bitter-race-publish-americas-first-magazine\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Franklin\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Duffy, founder and publisher of Backwoods Home magazine, has announced that the periodical will cease publishing its print version this year.\u00a0 Its sister publication, Self-Reliance, will remain as a hard copy magazine.\u00a0 The electronic version of Backwoods Home will continue, at least for now, online.\u00a0 So will this blog, and Jackie Clay\u2019s.\u00a0 Stay tuned [&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-4102","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\/4102","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=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/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=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}