{"id":11217,"date":"2021-11-18T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:10:02","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-i-had-never-fired-a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2021\/11\/18\/front-sight-mailbag-i-had-never-fired-a-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: I Had Never Fired a Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>My entire experience at Front Sight was fantastic. I had never fired a weapon before stepping foot onto the range and I was concerned I would exhaust instructors&#8217; patience. I could not have been more wrong. The staff was fantastic and he made me feel welcomed from the get go. They all were informative, diligent, skilled and coached very well. Each was incredibly accommodating to all participants, whether they were law enforcement-quality students or spanking new to firearms student, like me. By the end of the fourth day, I was more comfortable handling a handgun and definitely improved from day 1. These gentlemen were all wonderful and I learned so much from them all.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, My entire experience at Front Sight was fantastic. I had never fired a weapon before stepping foot onto the range and I was concerned I would exhaust instructors&#8217; patience. I could not have been more wrong. The staff was fantastic and he made me feel welcomed from the get go. They all [&hellip;]<\/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":[514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217"}],"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=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11218,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions\/11218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}