{"id":33391,"date":"2012-12-27T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33391"},"modified":"2012-12-27T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:32:57","slug":"kalashnikov-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33391","title":{"rendered":"Kalashnikov hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=33392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mikhail-Kalashniko_1511890c-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Mikhail-Kalashniko_1511890c\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mikhail-Kalashniko_1511890c-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mikhail-Kalashniko_1511890c.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/article\/20121226\/DEFREG01\/312260004\/Russia-8217-s-Kalashnikov-Intensive-Care-Report?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\">Defense News<\/a> reports that Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the  Kalashnikov rifle, known popularly as the AK-47, is in the hospital;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 93-year-old father of the AK-47 has been having heart problems and feeling poorly since March, when he stopped showing up for work, his aide told the RIA Novosti news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I visited him at home last week, he told me that nothing seemed to hurt, but that he simply had no strength left,\u201d his assistant, Nikolai Shklyayev, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems that this is just his age showing,\u201d Shklyayev said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? He&#8217;s a little bit tired after working all of his life, outliving the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of the AK-series. They&#8217;re dependable and I guess that&#8217;s all you need when you&#8217;re arming some third world shithole to kill each other. I&#8217;m sure there are some fans out there, but I&#8217;m not one, being an American who appreciates marksmanship over spray and pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense News reports that Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the Kalashnikov rifle, known popularly as the &hellip; <a title=\"Kalashnikov hospitalized\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33391\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kalashnikov hospitalized<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33391","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}