{"id":16816,"date":"2014-03-21T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2014-03-21T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:08:41","slug":"aunt-jenny-sends-a-postumous-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/aunt-jenny-sends-a-postumous-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Jenny sends a posthumous warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-fiery Mike Vanderboegh <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/an-open-letter-to-legislatures-of-new.html\" target=\"_blank\">sends a warning to anti-gun state legislators<\/a> via the tale of &#8220;Aunt Jenny.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe if you&#8217;re in Alabama (as Mike is), Jenny lore is in your blood. Dunno. I&#8217;d never heard of her. When I looked her up, I discovered that no two accounts agree. They&#8217;re so far apart that even her name is disputed. So are the political sympathies (or apathies) of Jenny and her vengeful brood &#8212; even though those views played a huge role in triggering the bloody doings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking <a href=\"http:\/\/auntjennyjohnson.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/aunt-jenny-johnson.html\" target=\"_blank\">this version<\/a> of the story as definitive, mostly because it doesn&#8217;t claim to know what nobody knows, yet adds some scintillatingly grim detail.<\/p>\n<p>However you slice it &#8212; and slice is a deliberately chosen word here &#8212; whotta tale, whotta woman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-fiery Mike Vanderboegh sends a warning to anti-gun state legislators via the tale of &#8220;Aunt Jenny.&#8221; Maybe if you&#8217;re in Alabama (as Mike is), Jenny lore is in your blood. Dunno. I&#8217;d never heard of her. When I looked her up, I discovered that no two accounts agree. They&#8217;re so far apart that even her name is disputed. So are the political sympathies (or apathies) of Jenny and her vengeful brood &#8212; even though those views played a huge role in triggering the bloody doings. I&#8217;m taking this version of the story as definitive, mostly because it doesn&#8217;t claim&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/aunt-jenny-sends-a-postumous-warning\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aunt Jenny sends a posthumous warning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}