{"id":715,"date":"2017-05-08T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/05\/08\/less-diverse-than-nra-annual-meeting\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:44","slug":"less-diverse-than-nra-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Less Diverse Than The NRA Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8509,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.motherearthnewsfair.com\\\/north-carolina&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8510,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/e0595.myubam.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8511,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2014\\\/04\\\/sorry-for-lack-of-posting.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8512,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.motherearthnewsfair.com\\\/north-carolina\\\/schedule&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8513,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/2pcIRsn&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Wildcrafted-Cocktail-Infusions-One-Kind\\\/dp\\\/1612127428\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494243492&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=zachos&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=5425b9ab1b3f09f62539f24dd87e2c48&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8514,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ltwrightknives.com\\\/bushcrafter-hc.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210924020645\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ltwrightknives.com\\\/bushcrafter-hc.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 06:12:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:22:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 04:34:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 16:53:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 16:53:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8515,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ltwrightknives.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Complementary Spouse and I spent the weekend helping her brother and sister-in-law out at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnewsfair.com\/north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Earth News Fair<\/a>. They had a booth as she is a <a href=\"https:\/\/e0595.myubam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consultant for Usborne children&#8217;s books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Larry and I primarily helped with the set-up and take-down while the Complementary Spouse and Jan did all the selling of books. The Fair attracts a number of families who bring their children with them as well as a significant number of grandparents looking for educational books for their grandkids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/sorry-for-lack-of-posting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As I noted a couple of years ago<\/a>, these events are not as granola as you might expect. For every one person wearing dreadlocks you saw probably 10-20 folks with gray hair. These events attract a lot of homesteaders, preppers, farmers, and everyday folks interested in self-reliance.<\/p>\n<p>Larry and I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnewsfair.com\/north-carolina\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshops <\/a>on sausage making, whole animal butchery, &#8220;wildcrafted&#8221; cocktails, and reusing wood pallets. I also attended a workshop on charcuterie while he went to the one on bastes, rubs, and marinades for BBQ. If we had the room, I might have attended others dealing making your own wood-fired pizza oven or on keeping goats.<\/p>\n<p>I did come home with an autographed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pcIRsn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wildcrafted Cocktail<\/a> and a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/ltwrightknives.com\/bushcrafter-hc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bushcrafter knife<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/ltwrightknives.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.T. Wright Knives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms of the NRA &#8211; and it is fairly valid &#8211; is that they don&#8217;t attract enough minorities and women. That said, the recent NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta featured a much more heterogeneous mix of people than this Mother Earth News Fair. I don&#8217;t know whether it was the location, the subject matter, or the decidedly rural flavor of the fair but the attendees were almost uniformly white.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time someone says the NRA is only for old white guys, I&#8217;ll respond, &#8220;Have you been to the Mother Earth News Fair?&#8221; The sad part is that both events had things of interest to all people, of all colors, and in all walks of life.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complementary Spouse and I spent the weekend helping her brother and sister-in-law out at the Mother Earth News&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1557,1558,1559,1560],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2017-nra-annual-meeting","tag-homesteading","tag-mother-earth-news-expo","tag-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11061,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/11061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}