{"id":6854,"date":"2021-07-04T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T13:26:43","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/happy-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gun owners\u2019 civil rights are among the things we celebrate on this day.&nbsp; We all do remember what triggered Lexington and Concord, right?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also a good day to tip the hat to our now-longtime allies the British (bygones, after all, can be bygones) and remember that their Lord Blackstone, the great commentator on the common law, said that self-defense was the highest of all human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you\u2019ll spend the Fourth safely.&nbsp; Personally, the closest I\u2019ll come to fireworks will be to go to my range and crank off a few carefully aimed rounds.&nbsp; That will also serve to celebrate the fact that the ammunition drought seems to be easing up, and the ammo prices coming down, if only slightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t care about the predicted heavy rains.&nbsp; I\u2019ve shot matches and taught classes in worse, including tropical storms and horizontal sleet.&nbsp; Responsibly directed gunfire seems to be a particularly appropriate way to celebrate Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun owners\u2019 civil rights are among the things we celebrate on this day.&nbsp; We all do remember what triggered Lexington and Concord, right?&nbsp; It\u2019s also a good day to tip the hat to our now-longtime allies the British (bygones, after all, can be bygones) and remember that their Lord Blackstone, the great commentator on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6854","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\/6854","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=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6855,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions\/6855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}