{"id":7282,"date":"2022-05-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:16:04","slug":"gun-machismo-is-expensive-dont-pay-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-machismo-is-expensive-dont-pay-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GUN MACHISMO IS EXPENSIVE. DON\u2019T PAY FOR IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Human beings have personalized their weapons since the first caveman made his mark on his club.&nbsp;&nbsp;I get it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I own guns that have my name engraved on them. I have a few with serial numbers personalized with my initials, \u201cMFA-1.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I DON\u2019T have are guns bearing bullshit macho insignia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you are wise, you shouldn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/our-experts\/youre-f-ed-a-shooting-in-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here is a case in point<\/a>, from the Ayoob Files series I\u2019ve been doing every issue of\u00a0<em>American Handgunner\u00a0<\/em>magazine for the last few decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings have personalized their weapons since the first caveman made his mark on his club.&nbsp;&nbsp;I get it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I own guns that have my name engraved on them. I have a few with serial numbers personalized with my initials, \u201cMFA-1.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; What I DON\u2019T have are guns bearing bullshit macho insignia.&nbsp; And if you are wise, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7282","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\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}