{"id":7432,"date":"2013-08-12T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramworks.net\/blog\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:09:00","slug":"dispatches-from-kodiak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/dispatches-from-kodiak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from Kodiak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Walker – cousin, friend and all around good guy \u2013 is in Alaska for a month teaching kids to ride horses, shoot and be upstanding citizens. He has been sending me dispatches from the field and I tough it would be of interest to share them here.<\/p>\n

Not only is he doing a particularly good thing while up in the North country \u2013 totally volunteer I might add \u2013 he is also having quite the adventure. The other day we talked and he was out riding the range looking for cattle in griz country.<\/p>\n

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Kodiak beach house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Handguns for sale at Walmart? Only in Alaska.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wilderness transportation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnny Walker – cousin, friend and all around good guy \u2013 is in Alaska for a month teaching kids to ride horses, shoot and be upstanding citizens. He has been sending me dispatches from the field and I tough it would be of interest to share them here. Not only is he doing a particularly good thing while up in the North …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-riding-and-shooting-on-kodiak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-1VS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13470,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/a-carry-gun-for-kodiak\/","url_meta":{"origin":7432,"position":0},"title":"A Carry Gun for Kodiak","author":"gunwriter","date":"June 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My best\u00a0buddy has moved to Kodiak, Alaska. 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