{"id":2544,"date":"2014-07-25T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:49:08","slug":"history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"History lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_James_Church_massacre\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2545\" title=\"St James Massacre, 25 July 1993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StJames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 Years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlvanwyk.info\/\">one man<\/a> with a gun made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Having a gun, even an inexpensive ineffective low-capacity 38 Special snubnosed revolver, is better than not having a gun at all.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:690,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Saint_James_Church_massacre&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Saint_James_Church_massacre&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:691,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.charlvanwyk.info&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251225223944\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.charlvanwyk.info\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 22:25:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-04 04:14:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 20:01:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 06:14:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 18:43:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-05 19:25:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10 20:02:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10 20:02:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Years ago, one man with a gun made a difference. Having a gun, even an inexpensive ineffective low-capacity 38 Special snubnosed revolver, is better than not having a gun at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-soapbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}