{"id":1574,"date":"2007-11-06T05:13:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2007-11-06T05:13:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:13:16","slug":"excellence-rewarded-assailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Excellence Rewarded, Assailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I always love stories like this &#8211;\u00a0 about a couple of rural Wisconsin brothers who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_7372134?source=rv&#038;nclick_check=1\">restore and replicate Civil War artillery for a living<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; for their own sake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civil War buffs say the Paulsons, 66, are among the nation&#8217;s pre-eminent restorers of antique cannons&#8230;&#8221;We&#8217;ve been building cannons longer than anybody in America,&#8221; Bernie says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen them come, and we&#8217;ve seen them go,&#8221; Bruce says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody wants to come in and make money, and then all of a sudden they don&#8217;t last,&#8221; Bernie says&#8230;In the 1960s, they started making historically accurate artillery pieces. Eventually, they sold their farm-machinery business to focus on Civil War cannons.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also like to ponder obvious offshoots of the stories &#8211; like &#8220;if the Hanson Brothers set foot on the campus of Hamline University, would they be arrested and held in a psych ward&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>One must ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I always love stories like this &#8211;\u00a0 about a couple of rural Wisconsin brothers who restore and replicate Civil War artillery for a living\u00a0&#8211; for their own sake. Civil War buffs say the Paulsons, 66, are among the nation&#8217;s pre-eminent restorers of antique cannons&#8230;&#8221;We&#8217;ve been building cannons longer than anybody in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}