{"id":42,"date":"2004-03-27T23:12:03","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-03-27T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T04:12:03","slug":"nation-of-riflemen-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Nation of Riflemen. And women."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maryday1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/archives\/maryday1.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nFull circle. This is my daughter, shooting a Stevens Crackshot 26 which my best friend loaned to me, which was his father&#8217;s rifle when he was very young.<br \/>\nNearly forty years ago this year, my father took me to a field in my grandfather&#8217;s farm, put a shotgun in my hands (after carefully explaining the rules) and threw clays for me until I got the hang of leading them. <\/p>\n<p>She carefully and eagerly followed my instructions,  and did OK, for a beginner. Got the holes on the paper, after around 15 shots at 25 yards. I&#8217;m incredibly proud. <\/p>\n<p>This is what it&#8217;s about, folks. Don&#8217;t wait until it&#8217;s too late to pass the torch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full circle. This is my daughter, shooting a Stevens Crackshot 26 which my best friend loaned to me, which was his father&#8217;s rifle when he was very young. Nearly forty years ago this year, my father took me to a field in my grandfather&#8217;s farm, put a shotgun in my hands (after carefully explaining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}