{"id":9354,"date":"2026-08-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:06:01","slug":"remembering-a-controversial-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/remembering-a-controversial-american-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING A CONTROVERSIAL AMERICAN HERO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. In our long and revered catalog of American heroes, let\u2019s remember one who died forty years before 1776, also fighting in the name of independence.<br>The life \u2013 and death \u2013 of Davy Crockett at the Alamo became the stuff of myth as well as legend. I addressed it a few years ago when I wrote my Ayoob Files series for American Handgunner magazine.<br>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/discover\/ayoob-files-davy-crocketts-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">find it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, your comments are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. In our long and revered catalog of American heroes, let\u2019s remember one who died forty years before 1776, also fighting in the name of independence.The life \u2013 and death \u2013 of Davy Crockett at the Alamo became the stuff of myth as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","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=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9356,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions\/9356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}