{"id":8,"date":"2007-04-15T22:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T03:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/04\/15\/powder-and-tweed\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T03:20:31","slug":"powder-and-tweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/8","title":{"rendered":"Powder and tweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put aside all my stresses for a day and a half and enjoyed the company of some very fine people who came to David&#8217;s cabin for his second spring rifle competition. After participating in the Saturday morning shoot with an Australian .310 Cadet rifle (tied for fifth place), I kept score in the afternoon for relay number two of the British Single Shot Sporting Rifle Match. With the miserable weather that blew through, we couldn&#8217;t have had better luck than when the rain stopped long enough to preserve the event as originally planned. David said he couldn&#8217;t have pulled it off without me. In spite of prior misgivings, I was glad to have been there, to have helped out my friend, and to have solidified relationships with some of the region&#8217;s top experts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svartkrutt.net\/engmartinihenry1.php\">Victorian firearms<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/attachment\/uj\/2007\/04\/15\/0\/Cadet310.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put aside all my stresses for a day and a half and enjoyed the company of some very fine people who came to David&#8217;s cabin for his second spring rifle competition. After participating in the Saturday morning shoot with an Australian .310 Cadet rifle (tied for fifth place), I kept score in the afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}