{"id":363,"date":"2012-10-11T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-10-11T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:43:09","slug":"bowhunting-debating-paul-ryan-makes-the-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2012\/10\/bowhunting-debating-paul-ryan-makes-the-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowhunting & Debating – Paul Ryan Makes The Connection!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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If you like to hunt and fish, you\u2019ve got to admire a politician who approaches a debate like he approaches a morning in a treestand. Let me just say, if I were a whitetail or a politician\u2026I wouldn\u2019t want to wander into Ryan\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

Henry David Thoreau wrote: \u201cThere is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the \u2018best men,\u2019 as the Algonquins called them. We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.\u201d (Walden<\/em>, Mineola: Dover Publications, 1995)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I posted about Congressman Ryan as a sportsman here<\/a>,\u00a0but in case you\u2019re still not convinced that he\u2019s the real deal, check out this CNN interview:<\/p>\n

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If you like to hunt and fish, you\u2019ve got to admire a politician who approaches a debate like he approaches a morning in a treestand. Let me just say, if I were a whitetail or a politician\u2026I wouldn\u2019t want to wander into Ryan\u2019s territory. Henry David Thoreau wrote: \u201cThere is a period in the history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,476,469,204,33,32,470,30,200,478,473,471,477,474,475,31,202,29],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bowhunting","tag-cnn","tag-debate","tag-election","tag-fishing","tag-hunting","tag-joe-biden","tag-man-on-the-run","tag-paul-ryan","tag-politician","tag-preparation","tag-presidential-debate","tag-ryan-biden-debate","tag-scent-free","tag-sportsman","tag-sportsmen","tag-vice-president","tag-zeke-pipher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}