{"id":733,"date":"2008-12-16T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/12\/16\/commendation\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:58:27","slug":"commendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/12\/16\/commendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I just want to commend you on the message that you convey in your commentaries and evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>I hear so often that if you are confronted with a violent mugging that you should simply give up your money and preserve your safety.\u00a0 This selfish mentality makes me sick.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does this encourage the criminals, it debilitates the people who take that philosophy on board.\u00a0 It makes a person cowardly, impotent and dependent on others for their safety.\u00a0 This is certainly not in the spirit that founded the United States of America and does not promote a free and prosperous society.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for promoting the ideals that Americans need to return to.\u00a0 Your voice of reason is extremely valuable.<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, I just want to commend you on the message that you convey in your commentaries and evaluations. I hear so often that if you are confronted with a violent mugging that you should simply give up your money and preserve your safety.\u00a0 This selfish mentality makes me sick. Not only does this encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[558,1320,329,483,1340,3531,3117,2165,2054,3145,4705,1608,416,2256,4767,4049,4050,1037,465,232,3681,1814,1396,74,1201,2873,721,4165,1048,723,4775,4152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}