{"id":8758,"date":"2025-04-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:56:11","slug":"in-the-matter-of-mutual-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-the-matter-of-mutual-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE MATTER OF MUTUAL COMBAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mutual combat \u2013 \u201cLet\u2019s you and me fight!\u201d \u2013 is generally against the law. For a very long time in American law and longer than that in the English Common Law from which our own derives, the rule in mutual combat has been the one who ends up horizontal goes in the meat wagon and the one still standing goes in the paddy wagon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/would-you-like-to-fight-the-myth-and-promise-of-mutual-combat-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here for your amusement<\/a> \u2013 PLEASE don\u2019t consider it training or recommended procedure! \u2013 is a Black Swan exception to the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutual combat \u2013 \u201cLet\u2019s you and me fight!\u201d \u2013 is generally against the law. For a very long time in American law and longer than that in the English Common Law from which our own derives, the rule in mutual combat has been the one who ends up horizontal goes in the meat wagon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8758","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\/8758","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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}