{"id":13174,"date":"2013-12-14T04:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2013-12-14T04:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T10:52:55","slug":"st-louis-post-dispatch-writer-displays-ignorance-of-gun-owners-gun-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/st-louis-post-dispatch-writer-displays-ignorance-of-gun-owners-gun-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> Writer Displays Ignorance Of Gun Owners, Gun Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And who would have guessed it from the accusatory headline, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/what-s-an-olivette-man-doing-running-pro-gun-website\/article_ebedff14-a590-574c-970b-4f40e1ff1512.html\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s an Olivette man doing running pro-gun website?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sitting inside a Starbucks, sipping black coffee, joking with the baristas, Dan Zimmerman doesn\u2019t look like a gun guy.<\/p>\n<p>He looks like a guy who might work in accounts receivable, which is what this Olivette resident did for years. He is 53, balding, wearing tortoise shell glasses, carrying a little extra weight and dressed in the beige tones of business casual. He smiles easily. He is working on a laptop at a back table.<\/p>\n<p>He also might be packing heat. Could be his .38 snubby. Maybe his Kahr 9 mm. He won\u2019t say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t talk about that,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on whether the journalist asked to see it or hold it.<\/p>\n<p>No word on what the journalist thinks a gun guy looks like, but I suspect its informed by the film version of <em>Winter&#8217;s Bone<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And who would have guessed it from the accusatory headline, What&#8217;s an Olivette man doing running pro-gun website?: Sitting inside a Starbucks, sipping black coffee, joking with the baristas, Dan Zimmerman doesn\u2019t look like a gun guy. He looks like a guy who might work in accounts receivable, which is what this Olivette resident did [&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-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","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=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}