{"id":71909,"date":"2023-12-29T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=71909"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:35:02","slug":"its-better-to-shut-off-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/its-better-to-shut-off-the-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Better to Shut Off the Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trench-mace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trench-mace.jpg 680w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trench-mace-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title has-xxx-large-font-size\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trailupbloodhill.wordpress.com\/2023\/12\/15\/its-better-to-shut-off-the-computer\/\">It\u2019s Better to Shut Off the\u00a0Computer<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I\u2019ll let you in on a little secret. A knife has never been my go to choice for self-protection. I train with them. I instruct in the use of them. Hell, I\u2019ve designed them. It was my dislike of the knife that drew me to better understand it. You can hear about my first experience having a knife drawn on me here;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LETHAL SELF-DEFENSE - OFF TO THE WITCH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8oZhqOa9aU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>And with all that, a wise weasel once said something along the lines of:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em> \u201cIt\u2019s quicker to shut down the computer than it is to drain the pipes.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Anybody that mentions any sort of \u201cTime Table of Death\u201d in relation to knife wounds is not someone you should be listening to. There are far too many variables involved when it comes to that type of violence. Blood pressure, heart rate, muscle density, the skeletal structure\u2026 (that thing can be a bitch if your knife bites into it). I carry and train with a knife because it is less of a legal risk in the area in which I live than if I were to carry some sort of an impact weapon.<\/h2>\n<h2>I would much rather carry a sap, blackjack, or even a dan bong over a knife. Impact weapons have more leeway. Take a sap for example, if I were to be attacked and I knew I could get away, I might think to bring the impact down onto the attackers forearm or thigh with the broadside of the sap\u2019s body and then try to escape. However, if the same attacker were to have a weapon drawn or maybe gesticulating as if they had a weapon, I might be more likely to strike out with the thin edge of the sap to break the bone.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/trailupbloodhill.wordpress.com\/2023\/12\/15\/its-better-to-shut-off-the-computer\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71762 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stay-Calm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stay-Calm.jpg 499w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stay-Calm-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Stay-Calm-300x427.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Better to Shut Off the\u00a0Computer &nbsp; I\u2019ll let you in on a little secret. A knife has never been my go to choice for self-protection. I train with them. I instruct in the use of them. Hell, I\u2019ve designed them. It was my dislike of the knife that drew me to better understand it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,5464,387,388,13,6503,397,7372,3986,10,404,405,24,1309],"tags":[9380,658,16955,15067,372,14652,16954],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909"}],"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=71909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71914,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71909\/revisions\/71914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}