{"id":619,"date":"2013-03-31T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=619"},"modified":"2013-03-31T21:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:31:05","slug":"the-compleat-angler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"THE COMPLEAT ANGLER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The complete angler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=1r2nRfnpWxw\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-620\" alt=\"index\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/index.jpeg\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><i> The Complete Angler is a film by James Prosek , and <i>produce by<\/i> Fritz Mitchell\u00a0 <\/i><i>It documents Prosek&#8217;s travels as he walks in the footsteps of the 17th century English writer, Izaak Walton\u2014&#8221;research&#8221; for his senior thes<\/i><i>is at Yale. The film focuses on Walton&#8217;s book, The Compleat Angler,\u00a0 as <i>Prosek told<\/i> the Yale fellowship committee the book is third most frequently reprinted book in the English language and a book that many have heard of but few have actually read. <\/i><i>The Compleat Angler<\/i> was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century.\u00a0 It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing.\u00a0 <i>James Prosek<\/i> in the movie goes to England and fishes in the footsteps of the legitimate seventeenth-century author.\u00a0 The movie is 43 minutes long and well worth seeing. I did find the book to be a hard read so I did the next best thing I found the audible version which you can listen to here <a title=\"LibriVox recording of The Compleat Angler\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/compleat_angler_1208_librivox\" target=\"_blank\">(link)<\/a>. You can also find the movie&#8217;s companion book <strong>The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton <\/strong>by James Prosek here <a title=\"The Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Complete-Angler-Connecticut-Footsteps\/dp\/0060191899\" target=\"_blank\">(link)<\/a>. With the warm weather coming I hope this encourages you to get out on to a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Good Fishing<\/p>\n<p>Joe &lt;((((&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complete Angler is a film by James Prosek , and produce by Fritz Mitchell\u00a0 It documents Prosek&#8217;s travels as he walks in the footsteps of the 17th century English writer, Izaak Walton\u2014&#8221;research&#8221; for his senior thesis at Yale. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=619\">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-619","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\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}