{"id":35404,"date":"2020-06-12T18:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=35404"},"modified":"2020-06-12T18:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:21:53","slug":"is-awareness-mightier-than-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/is-awareness-mightier-than-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Awareness Mightier Than the Gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35406\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/wild-bill.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"376\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"Openrange Defense - Is Awareness Mightier than the Gun?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openrangesports.com\/blogs\/blog\/openrange-defense-is-awareness-mightier-than-the-g\/\">Openrange Defense &#8211; Is Awareness Mightier than the Gun?<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2>I personally hold the old school adage of &#8220;The Best Fight is the one that never happens&#8221; as my personal motto because it exemplifies the two traits I think every martial citizen should have in spades: AWARENESS and DE-ESCALATION.<\/h2>\n<h2>Being AWARE of your Surroundings and Always having the COOL HEADED Mindset that every heated encounter does not have to end in gunfire.<\/h2>\n<h2>Actually, I have found over my 45 years that if you hone your AWARENESS to\u00a0 fine edge you can sidestep &#8220;jinky&#8221; encounters (ones you have to de-escalate) before they ever get to the verbal stage.<\/h2>\n<h2>As I have always said the Martial Citizen is a lifestyle not a hobby.<\/h2>\n<h2>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openrange Defense &#8211; Is Awareness Mightier than the Gun? I personally hold the old school adage of &#8220;The Best Fight is the one that never happens&#8221; as my personal motto because it exemplifies the two traits I think every martial citizen should have in spades: AWARENESS and DE-ESCALATION. Being AWARE of your Surroundings and Always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,389,390,391,13,397],"tags":[231,1136,4801,8329],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}