{"id":8954,"date":"2017-09-06T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:48:43","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-critique-from-a-purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2017\/09\/06\/front-sight-mailbag-critique-from-a-purple-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: Critique from a Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I am a purple heart Viet Nam vet. \u00a0The government spent tens of thousands to dollars making sure I was extremely\u00a0proficient in everything from a .38 pistol to a .50 cal machine gun. \u00a0After 47 years, I lost a lot of my edge, regular training is\u00a0essential.\u00a0\u00a0What I learned in 4 days at front sight is much more valuable in self-defense and home defense than all the training I got from the military. \u00a0Every law abiding citizen in the U.S. should own a gun. \u00a0And anyone who owns a gun needs great training. \u00a0Front Sight gives the best training I know of.<\/p>\n<p>Rand P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, I am a purple heart Viet Nam vet. \u00a0The government spent tens of thousands to dollars making sure I was extremely\u00a0proficient in everything from a .38 pistol to a .50 cal machine gun. \u00a0After 47 years, I lost a lot of my edge, regular training is\u00a0essential.\u00a0\u00a0What I learned in 4 days at [&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\/8954"}],"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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}