{"id":5644,"date":"2019-02-10T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2019-02-10T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:03:17","slug":"reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was working on an upcoming presentation titled \u201cUnderstanding Controversial Acquittals,\u201d and coincidentally ran across an internet blurb commemorating what would have been the 24<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of the \u201cmurdered\u201d Trayvon Martin.\u00a0 Sad that old tropes, however, false, never die.\u00a0 Writer Jack Cashill, who intensively researched the young man\u2019s death at the hands of George Zimmerman, sets folks straight and offers an alternate history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/02\/what-if-trayvon-had-lived-to-be-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/12359857_1655493891387946_4244272228102876153_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/12359857_1655493891387946_4244272228102876153_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5647\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/12359857_1655493891387946_4244272228102876153_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/12359857_1655493891387946_4244272228102876153_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/12359857_1655493891387946_4244272228102876153_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence proved incontrovertibly that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense.\u00a0 That\u2019s why a jury acquitted him.\u00a0 Those who don\u2019t know the whole story can read my 20-part analysis of the Zimmerman case and trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-zimmerman-verdict-part-1\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"beginning here (opens in a new tab)\">beginning here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Trayvon\nMartin was a victim of anything, he was a victim of a subculture that glorified\nthug life \u2026 and media with an obvious bias against law-abiding gun owners and\nthe right to self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on an upcoming presentation titled \u201cUnderstanding Controversial Acquittals,\u201d and coincidentally ran across an internet blurb commemorating what would have been the 24th birthday of the \u201cmurdered\u201d Trayvon Martin.\u00a0 Sad that old tropes, however, false, never die.\u00a0 Writer Jack Cashill, who intensively researched the young man\u2019s death at the hands of George Zimmerman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5644","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\/5644","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}