{"id":8720,"date":"2025-03-12T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2025-03-12T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:18:11","slug":"remembering-john-taffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/remembering-john-taffin\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING JOHN TAFFIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend John Taffin passed a couple of days ago, after a period of ill health. He was 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was one of the longest-standing gun writers in the business. He was particularly fond of older-style revolvers and lever action rifles. His work appeared regularly in GUNS and American Handgunner magazine. A devout Christian, he lived his beliefs \u2013 a genuinely kind and generous man in person, and very much a family man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A heck of a good shot, too. Not to mention his encyclopedic knowledge of firearms history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not too late to read his several excellent books, which should be available on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3R51SaF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>. John was the quintessential \u201cgood guy with a gun,\u201d and my deepest condolences go to his large family, his many friends, and his countless readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend John Taffin passed a couple of days ago, after a period of ill health. He was 86. John was one of the longest-standing gun writers in the business. He was particularly fond of older-style revolvers and lever action rifles. His work appeared regularly in GUNS and American Handgunner magazine. A devout Christian, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8720","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\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}