{"id":3815,"date":"2016-04-03T01:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:08","slug":"dearlola-we-went-shooting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/dearlola-we-went-shooting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"#DearLola, We went shooting today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lola,<\/p>\n<p> We went shooting today.<\/p>\n<p> It was funner than I expected.<\/p>\n<p> Can you imagine me with a gun? I wonder if I look as B.A. as you thought I was wielding the machete. (I bet you wish you could see me, huh?)<\/p>\n<p> There was a bit of fear when I first got the 9mm in my hand. I thought the kick was going to hurt. But it wasn&#8217;t so bad.<\/p>\n<p> It was my first time target shooting, but I think I did okay. My hits were mostly grouped near center mass. I only bounced a few shots off the berm.<\/p>\n<p> I was a much better shot than I was expecting. I think my brother was surprised too.<\/p>\n<p> I wish you had been there to see it, dear Lola. It felt like the start of something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lola, We went shooting today. It was funner than I expected. Can you imagine me with a gun? I wonder if I look as B.A. as you thought I was wielding the machete. (I bet you wish you could see me, huh?) There was a bit of fear when I first got the 9mm&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/dearlola-we-went-shooting-today\/\" title=\"#DearLola, We went shooting today\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#DearLola, We went shooting today<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[254,296],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-writing-2","tag-dear-lola","tag-epistolary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Zx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3804,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/dearlola-how-i-love-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":0},"title":"#DearLola, How I Love You","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"February 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Lola, I heard somewhere that writing letters is good for the soul. 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