{"id":26049,"date":"2016-07-29T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=26049"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:21:30","slug":"a-pacifist-husband-and-non-lethal-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/29\/a-pacifist-husband-and-non-lethal-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"A pacifist husband and non-lethal self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excellent off-topic discussion started in this morning&#8217;s &#8220;Nevermind&#8221; post. It deserves more prominence than it&#8217;ll get in comments, so I&#8217;m moving it forward here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LBS wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DH is a pacifist and against all violent methods of self-defense \u2013 especially guns. He says I can defend myself, as long as the method couldn\u2019t possibly kill the attacker (yeah, I know what you\u2019re thinking). Do any of you have any ideas what a short, sixtyish, fat cancer survivor could have handy to better the odds? (BTW, murder or divorce are not options. I really love the guy. He\u2019s mostly a great guy, just naive.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first several comments below appear under my personal login because I have no way of duplicating the logins of the original writers. But please note that these comments are by RustyGunner, LBS, LarryA, and Pat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent off-topic discussion started in this morning&#8217;s &#8220;Nevermind&#8221; post. It deserves more prominence than it&#8217;ll get in comments, so I&#8217;m moving it forward here. LBS wrote: DH is a pacifist and against all violent methods of self-defense \u2013 especially guns. He says I can defend myself, as long as the method couldn\u2019t possibly kill the attacker (yeah, I know what you\u2019re thinking). Do any of you have any ideas what a short, sixtyish, fat cancer survivor could have handy to better the odds? (BTW, murder or divorce are not options. I really love the guy. He\u2019s mostly a great&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/29\/a-pacifist-husband-and-non-lethal-self-defense\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pacifist husband and non-lethal self-defense<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049","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=26049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}