{"id":8938,"date":"2025-09-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:53:54","slug":"r-i-p-john-holschen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/r-i-p-john-holschen\/","title":{"rendered":"R. I. P. JOHN HOLSCHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago we lost John Holschen to a heart attack. After a long career in the military that encompassed special forces, he had been teaching armed self-defense in the private sector for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An articulate man with a questing mind, John was a progressive thinker who stayed on top of the latest research on human performance from the sport training world and elsewhere and integrated it into defensive training. On&nbsp;&nbsp;the range he&nbsp;&nbsp;used high tech gear that projected colored laser dots on different targets as an advanced form of shoot\/don\u2019t shoot experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fine instructor in his own right, he was also a featured teacher every year at the <a href=\"https:\/\/taccon.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RangeMaster Tactical Conference.&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deepest condolences to his wonderful wife Martha, an ace shooter herself, and his family and many friends.&nbsp;&nbsp;John Holschen was a \u201cthinking person\u2019s trainer\u201d in this field, and will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we lost John Holschen to a heart attack. After a long career in the military that encompassed special forces, he had been teaching armed self-defense in the private sector for many years. An articulate man with a questing mind, John was a progressive thinker who stayed on top of the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8938","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\/8938","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=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8941,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions\/8941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}