{"id":46360,"date":"2014-08-13T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46360"},"modified":"2014-08-13T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:15:40","slug":"firing-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46360","title":{"rendered":"Firing Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A much-better-than-you&#8217;d expect piece from the BBC on <a href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-28587041\">shooters who happen to be blind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upside:\u00a0 some great interviews with blind shooters, some of whom are startlingly accomplished with firearms.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not making that up.<\/p>\n<p>Downside:\u00a0 while journos do usually try to find a counterpoint on any story, the best the Beeb could come up with was Stevie Wonder, who\u00a0 apparently thinks the idea of blind people with guns is crazy.\u00a0\u00a0 And if you can afford as many bodyguards as Wonder can (assuming he needs them), he could be forgiven the assumption.<\/p>\n<p>I used to produce a show for Don Vogel, a blind guy who hosted a talk show at KSTP in the eighties.\u00a0 After beating him in &#8220;Horse&#8221; by &#8220;HOR&#8221; to &#8220;HORSE&#8221;, I suggested a trip to the range.\u00a0 He was interested, but we could never quite pull it together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; the article is worth a read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A much-better-than-you&#8217;d expect piece from the BBC on shooters who happen to be blind. Upside:\u00a0 some great interviews with blind shooters, some of whom are startlingly accomplished with firearms. No, I&#8217;m not making that up. Downside:\u00a0 while journos do usually try to find a counterpoint on any story, the best the Beeb could come up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360\/revisions\/46365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}