{"id":20915,"date":"2023-01-08T10:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=20915"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:39:37","slug":"how-to-break-down-a-door-an-illustrated-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/featured\/how-to-break-down-a-door-an-illustrated-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill of the Week: Break Down a Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174622\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SOTW-Break-Down-Door-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SOTW-Break-Down-Door-3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SOTW-Break-Down-Door-3-320x280.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SOTW-Break-Down-Door-3-640x560.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/develop-savoir-faire-james-bond\/\">savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we&#8217;ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kicking down a locked door is almost never the best way to open it. Call a locksmith, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/featured\/how-to-pick-a-lock-pin-tumbler-locks\/\">pick the lock yourself<\/a>, or attempt to crawl in a window.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s say it\u2019s an emergency. You\u2019re in a burning house and you need to escape through a locked door. You can\u2019t stand there fiddling with the lock! What to do? Break down that door! You know you\u2019ve always wanted to.<\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\">Ted Slampyak<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we&#8217;ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,229,42259],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills"],"featured_image_urls":{"reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/door2-320x194.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20915"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174623,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions\/174623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}