{"id":2364,"date":"2019-12-23T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:12:14","slug":"the-christmas-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=2364","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a Christmas story\u00a0 by Mike Altzer on the Sporting Classics Daily<a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2365 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmastrout.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mind you, it\u2019s not that I couldn\u2019t fish; it\u2019s just that I didn\u2019t have the heart to do it. For you see, we had always fished together on Christmas, my brother Jack and me, somewhere, sometime. It might be on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day or perhaps even on the day after Christmas. It might be up on Doe Creek or Laurel Fork or over on the Holston or the Clinch or the Watauga&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story at this link\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportingclassicsdaily.com\/the-christmas-trout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sportingclassicsdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas<\/p>\n<p>Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a Christmas story\u00a0 by Mike Altzer on the Sporting Classics Daily &#8220;Mind you, it\u2019s not that I couldn\u2019t fish; it\u2019s just that I didn\u2019t have the heart to do it. For you see, we had always fished &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=2364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}