{"id":4838,"date":"2011-12-31T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2011-11-05T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T21:23:59","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-nonagenarian-firearms-student-writes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2011\/12\/31\/front-sight-mail-bag-nonagenarian-firearms-student-writes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Nonagenarian Firearms Student Writes In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Let me start out by telling you that last May I celebrated my ninetieth birthday. I am a WWII veteran who qualified as &#8220;Expert&#8221; with the 1911 Colt .45 but had not fired a weapon since leaving the Air Corps in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>What an exciting experience! I have already reserved a four-day session at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for providing such excellent facilities to train the &#8220;average&#8221; citizen in their self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, Let me start out by telling you that last May I celebrated my ninetieth birthday. I am a WWII veteran who qualified as &#8220;Expert&#8221; with the 1911 Colt .45 but had not fired a weapon since leaving the Air Corps in 1945. What an exciting experience! I have already reserved a four-day [&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],"tags":[509,3386,26,9,260,3388,232,4788,3387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838"}],"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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}