{"id":9213,"date":"2026-04-20T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:42:27","slug":"your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYOUR HOME IS YOUR CASTLE\u201d: A HISTORY LESSON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/our-experts\/home-defense-against-a-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A classic case of home defense<\/a> from a little more than a century ago reminds us of core Castle Doctrine principles, an American inheritance from the English Common Law. It appeared in my decades-long <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/category\/our-experts\/ayoob-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ayoob Files<\/a> series in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Handgunner\u00a0<\/a><\/em>magazine. As always, your commentary is invited.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic case of home defense from a little more than a century ago reminds us of core Castle Doctrine principles, an American inheritance from the English Common Law. It appeared in my decades-long Ayoob Files series in\u00a0American Handgunner\u00a0magazine. As always, your commentary is invited.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9213","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\/9213","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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}