{"id":2116,"date":"2005-06-07T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2005-06-07T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:06:54","slug":"a-stupid-self-defense-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/a-stupid-self-defense-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stupid Self-Defense Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a joke that implies life would be a lot easier if stupid people had to wear signs to identify them.  While some may take offense to this type of thing the following story reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kold.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=3439136\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/news\/articles\/0607ricin07.html\">here<\/a> reminded me of the logic behind such an idea! (this is meant in jest).  However the story is true, a Phoenix man was arrested for carrying Resin in case he was attacked.  While the effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryfordhealth.org\/13600.cfm\">being exposed to Resin<\/a> it is hard to see how it could be used as a self-defense weapon safely.  Again this is an observation not an endorsement, quiet to the contrary.  Perhaps this man could have enrolled in a local self-defense or martial arts class, at least then he would know how to defend himself in jail (as I doubt they will let him keep the Resin!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a joke that implies life would be a lot easier if stupid people had to wear signs to identify them. While some may take offense to this type of thing the following story reported here and here reminded me of the logic behind such an idea! (this is meant in jest). However the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/a-stupid-self-defense-tool\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","category-in-the-news","category-self-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}