{"id":8974,"date":"2017-09-24T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:57:10","slug":"front-sight-critique-i-had-thought-id-be-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2017\/09\/24\/front-sight-critique-i-had-thought-id-be-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Critique: I Had Thought I&#8217;d Be Bored&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I completed my first handgun course with your training Academy and I was truly impressed! I am a 15 years LEO with a mid-sized Dept. In the Midwest [250 + Sworn Officers] Most of those Officers truly scare me as well but that&#8217;s a different email. I do not have the words to express to you the utter amazement I feel for your instructors! I accompanied two other Officers to Front Sight and was honestly scared upon stepping up to the firing line the first day. I was accustomed to shooting with LEO&#8217;s and Military personnel, but this line was truly different.<\/p>\n<p>This line included Civilians who had never held a handgun in their life and that was truly bothersome, but after the first day with your instructors I was at ease with the civilians. They took a rag tag bunch and made them all shooters in four freaking days! It was the single most impressive transformation I have ever witnessed! To be honest I showed up at Front Sight believing I would be bored out of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>John S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, Yesterday I completed my first handgun course with your training Academy and I was truly impressed! I am a 15 years LEO with a mid-sized Dept. In the Midwest [250 + Sworn Officers] Most of those Officers truly scare me as well but that&#8217;s a different email. I do not have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974"}],"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=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}