{"id":12716,"date":"2013-05-06T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:17:40","slug":"an-excellent-illustration-of-the-importance-of-a-well-armed-militia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/an-excellent-illustration-of-the-importance-of-a-well-armed-militia\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excellent Illustration of the Importance of a Well-Armed Militia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a column preceding Cinco de Mayo, local Springfield columnist Richard Thompson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20130503\/OPINIONS05\/305030015\/local-voices-Richard-THOMPSON\" target=\"_blank\">argues the importance of civilian gun ownership<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cinco de Mayo celebrates a great Mexican military victory in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. On that date, 4,000 amateur Mexican soldiers armed primarily with old rifles and machetes defeated 6,000 heavily favored French troops, well trained and well armed. Indeed, at that time the French army was arguably the most formidable fighting force in the world. The last time France had lost a battle was at Waterloo, Belgium, in 1815. Napoleon I\u2019s defeat there is enshrined in our language. &#8220;He&#8217;ll never win this one; he&#8217;s met his Waterloo.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re familiar with Mr. Thompson&#8217;s other columns, you&#8217;re recognize he is unlikely to mean to make that point.  But he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a column preceding Cinco de Mayo, local Springfield columnist Richard Thompson argues the importance of civilian gun ownership: Cinco de Mayo celebrates a great Mexican military victory in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. On that date, 4,000 amateur Mexican soldiers armed primarily with old rifles and machetes defeated 6,000 heavily favored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12718,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}