{"id":5595,"date":"2013-01-22T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2013-01-21T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:28:14","slug":"i-may-never-wash-that-hand-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"I may never wash that hand again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been a fan of Harry Pope, from the moments I read the stories by Lucian Carey in the old Gun Digests of my youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0never in my wildest dreams did I expect to hold one of his rifles in my hands.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"pope.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"72\" id=\"image5594\" style=\"width: 271px; height: 161px\" alt=\"pope.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pope.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click to embiggenate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THe rifle on top is the one I liked the most. Here&#8217;s the hangtag for it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"96\" id=\"image5596\" style=\"height: 338px\" alt=\"hangtag1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hangtag1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would have bet cash that I would never have a chance at touching one of these. And there it was, in my hands, a rifle with the meticulously made barrel of <a href=\"http:\/\/riflemansjournal.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/secret-of-old-master.html\">Harry Pope<\/a>, when he was making barrels for Stevens, a bespoke gun which would have cost a months wages for a well paid man\u00c2\u00a0when new. I would need a lotto win to afford it, but for a moment I looked down in my hands and saw that &#8220;H.M.POPE&#8221; stamped on the barrel.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, fanbois squee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been a fan of Harry Pope, from the moments I read the stories by Lucian Carey in the old Gun Digests of my youth. \u00c2\u00a0never in my wildest dreams did I expect to hold one of his rifles in my hands. \u00c2\u00a0 Click to embiggenate. \u00c2\u00a0 THe rifle on top is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}