{"id":2452,"date":"2011-11-26T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2011-11-26T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:05:57","slug":"men-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2452 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-7-27-11-58746.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-7-27-11-58746-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-7-27-11-58746-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-7-27-11-58746-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2453'>\n\t\t\t\tLOADED\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-11-26-11-74333.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-11-26-11-74333-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-11-26-11-74333-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/addieville-11-26-11-74333-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2454'>\n\t\t\t\tON TARGET\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cody-52951.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cody-52951-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cody-52951-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cody-52951-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2456'>\n\t\t\t\t27 YARD TRAP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gary-nelson2602.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gary-nelson2602-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gary-nelson2602-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gary-nelson2602-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2457'>\n\t\t\t\t3 SHOT CHAMPION\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shooting872.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shooting872-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shooting872-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shooting872-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2458'>\n\t\t\t\tFRAN SARGENT\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have a passion for sailing, I don&#8217;t think that is a secret. It is a time consuming sport, leaving little for other pursuits. I really found shotguns later in life, I have almost always owned a gun, but never took the time to understand the sport of guns. I was introduced to shotgun sports by Jimmy Gublemann, with whom I attended St. George&#8217;s School, where we played hockey and sailed, continuing ever since. Jimmy can make anything fun.<\/p>\n<p>We are the same age, we are grandparents to two grandchildren each, and have the same aches and pains like anyone else our age; including failing eyesight. Shooting is 99% eyes; hence our scores have adjusted about equally; worse than we remember.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I spent a great relaxing day shooting clay targets with Jimmy, his son Bingo, and a group of sailors. November&#8217;s weather has been kind to us in the Northeast, today was no exception with the temperature above 60 and blue skies and high clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a passion for sailing, I don&#8217;t think that is a secret. It is a time consuming sport, leaving little for other pursuits. I really found shotguns later in life, I have almost always owned a gun, but never took the time to understand the sport of guns. I was introduced to shotgun sports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[1035,2555,2420],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-friends","tag-shooting","tag-st-georges-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}