{"id":27717,"date":"2011-11-29T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27717"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:20:33","slug":"better-late-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27717","title":{"rendered":"Better Late than&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now most of the TAH readers have seen this story elsewhere, but just in case:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/47068#more-47068\" target=\"_blank\">Via Don Surber<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ralphie was born about 70 years too soon. In \u201cA Christmas Story,\u201d he asks the Santa at Higbee\u2019s for a Daisy gun and is told \u201cyou\u2019ll poke your eye out, kid.\u201d That was Cleveland, circa 1940.<\/p>\n<p>In Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011, not only is the weather better but Santa is Second Amendment friendly. Santa will pose with the whole family and their weaponry at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottsdalegunclub.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=73&amp;Itemid=109\" target=\"_blank\">Scottsdale Gun Club from 10 AM to 3 PM on Saturday, December 10<\/a>. The charge is $5 for members, $10 for non-members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m so sure I WANT to be pictured with any weapons I might have, but the concept is just sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now most of the TAH readers have seen this story elsewhere, but just in case: &hellip; <a title=\"Better Late than&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27717\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better Late than&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}