{"id":10959,"date":"2021-06-29T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:09:58","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-70yo-never-held-a-gun-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2021\/06\/29\/front-sight-mailbag-70yo-never-held-a-gun-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: 70YO Ruth had Never Held a Gun Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am 70 years old and had never held a gun in my life.\u00a0 I was terrified on the day we shot when shells went everywhere and it was so loud.\u00a0 Sandy was so kind to me and calmed me down.\u00a0 She put me on the end of the line which helped a lot. \u00a0 All of the instructors were so patient and nice.\u00a0 I really improved and by the end of the course I did very well.\u00a0 It was fun and I met a lot of nice people. It was a great experience and actually gave me confidence.\u00a0 I felt a change in myself when I got home.\u00a0 I get up earlier now and accomplish more during my day.\u00a0 I loved the experience and I would recommend it to others.\u00a0 By the way the grounds are beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruth O<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was terrified on the day we shot when shells went everywhere and it was so loud&#8230; All of the instructors were so patient and nice.\u00a0 I really improved and by the end of the course I did very well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11026,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/11026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}