{"id":8379,"date":"2016-02-24T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2016-05-31T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:21:46","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-exceptional-firearms-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2016\/02\/24\/front-sight-mail-bag-exceptional-firearms-instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Exceptional Firearms Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Due to both of these exceptional instructors, I achieved a &#8220;Graduate&#8221; level on my skills test. I believe I am a better shooter, protector of my family, and highly qualified first-responder.\u00a0\u00a0 On the last day, we were asked to place the name of a loved one on the hostage and kidnapper target.\u00a0 I placed my son&#8217;s name. It made me teary eyed to process the scene, however the training I received during the course gave me confidence and a clear objective: hard focus on the front sight followed by a surprised shot. I was able to &#8216;save&#8217; my son, without harming him.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel O.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, Due to both of these exceptional instructors, I achieved a &#8220;Graduate&#8221; level on my skills test. I believe I am a better shooter, protector of my family, and highly qualified first-responder.\u00a0\u00a0 On the last day, we were asked to place the name of a loved one on the hostage and kidnapper target.\u00a0 [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379"}],"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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}