{"id":9056,"date":"2025-12-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:03:41","slug":"in-this-the-past-is-still-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-this-the-past-is-still-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THIS, THE PAST IS STILL RELEVANT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dozen or so years ago, I attended one of the annual Texas Firearms Law Seminars sponsored by the State Bar of Texas, where I also lectured.\u00a0 The lessons I mentioned then in my <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/massad-ayoob-6-must-know-court-cases-for-gun-owners\/#massad-ayoob-6-must-know-court-cases-for-gun-owners-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Combat Handguns <\/em>magazine Self-Defense and the Law column<\/a> remain current now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen or so years ago, I attended one of the annual Texas Firearms Law Seminars sponsored by the State Bar of Texas, where I also lectured.\u00a0 The lessons I mentioned then in my Combat Handguns magazine Self-Defense and the Law column remain current now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9056","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\/9056","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=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}