{"id":5897,"date":"2019-07-04T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2019-07-04T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:53:18","slug":"thoughts-on-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/thoughts-on-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If this is\nthe rare Independence Day that the Evil Princess and I don\u2019t celebrate with\ngunfire, it\u2019s for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, she\nand I burned up a four-figure round count between us this past week, shooting a\nGlock match in Delaware and demonstrating for students in the MAG-40 class we\ntaught there. We\u2019re (almost) \u201cshot out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, it\u2019s 98 degrees here before you count humidity and heat factor, and it just ain\u2019t a shootin\u2019 day.\u00a0  Celebrate our freedom safely and have a great holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this is the rare Independence Day that the Evil Princess and I don\u2019t celebrate with gunfire, it\u2019s for a couple of reasons. First, she and I burned up a four-figure round count between us this past week, shooting a Glock match in Delaware and demonstrating for students in the MAG-40 class we taught there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5897","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\/5897","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=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5898"}],"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=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}