{"id":9427,"date":"2026-10-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9427"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:53:33","slug":"in-praise-of-tom-selleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-praise-of-tom-selleck\/","title":{"rendered":"IN PRAISE OF TOM SELLECK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Selleck is one of my favorite actors and favorite celebrities. I can\u2019t think of a part he\u2019s played that isn\u2019t a role model for decency. I\u2019ve never met the man, unfortunately, but I\u2019m happy to say he is One Of Us.<br>In addition to his many years as a director of the National Rifle Association, he has donated many guns in his vast collection to worthy causes. A skilled shooter, said to be a graduate of the Gunsite shooting academy, he has done much to promote the responsible use of firearms.<br>Check this out on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside Tom Sellek&amp;apos;s Gun Collection\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oy7YGuRjZUc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oy7YGuRjZUc?si=Fgjr70KzGz74kdF5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Selleck is one of my favorite actors and favorite celebrities. I can\u2019t think of a part he\u2019s played that isn\u2019t a role model for decency. I\u2019ve never met the man, unfortunately, but I\u2019m happy to say he is One Of Us.In addition to his many years as a director of the National Rifle Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9427","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\/9427","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=9427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}