{"id":8863,"date":"2011-06-03T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2011-06-03T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:00:08","slug":"just-leave-the-beretta-007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8863","title":{"rendered":"Just Leave the Beretta, 007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/06\/may-i-suggest-that-mr-bond-be-armed.html\">Letters of Note:  May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boothroyd&#8217;s long letter continued in a similar vein, filled with incredibly detailed weaponry suggestions for 007. Fleming, delighted to be furnished with such expert advice, immediately replied with the letter seen below, and, as a result of their subsequent correspondence, equipped Bond with a Walther PPK in the novel Dr. No.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boothroyd&#8217;s observation about the Beretta being a lady&#8217;s gun lacking stopping power made it into the movie as &#8220;Nice and light \u2014 in a lady\u2019s handbag. No stopping power&#8221; and the armourer was given the name Major Boothroyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters of Note: May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver? Boothroyd&#8217;s long letter continued in a similar vein, filled with incredibly detailed weaponry suggestions for 007. Fleming, delighted to be furnished with such expert advice, immediately &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}