{"id":810,"date":"2006-04-23T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=810"},"modified":"2006-04-23T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T18:49:36","slug":"a-day-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/04\/23\/a-day-of-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/133198361\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/47\/133198361_359ae2d89f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/133198361\/\">Snake Crossing the Path<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sog\/\">sogrady<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My First Day of Fishing in &#8217;06 [1]\n<li>My First Sunburn of the Season\n<li>My First Witnessed Canadian Goose Battle [2]\n<li>My First Witnessed Watersnake [3]\n<li>My First Snake in the Path of the Season [4]\n<li>My First Fish of the Season [5]\n<li>My First Fishing Induced Injury of the Season [6]\n<li>My First Real Day of Fishing Peace<\/ul>\n<p>It was, as you might have guessed, a very good day. <\/p>\n<p>[1] At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/sets\/886603\/\">Sawhill Ponds<\/a>.<br \/>\n[2] Seemed to be males chasing each other off, from what I could tell. <br \/>\n[3] About 10 feet to my right, I saw a swiftly swimming brown colored stick. A couple of seconds later, I moved.<br \/>\n[4] Pictured. My best guess is that it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/coloherp.org\/geo\/species\/speelgu.php\">Corn Snake<\/a>, but I know very little about snakes. <br \/>\n[5] A nice, thick 7 or 8 inch bass. Following that, I caught another, smaller bass, but after that I caught nothing but Bluegill all day. <br \/>\n[6] Not, as you might expect, a hooking of my own body part. Instead, a Bluegill that I&#8217;d caught jerked in my hand, stabbing me in the process with a dorsal spine. This, in turn, caused me to drop the fish &#8211; dorsal spine down &#8211; onto my foot. In an unfortunate coincidence, the dorsal spine punctured the place where my toenail would be if it wasn&#8217;t growing back. Blood ensued, picture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/133198360\/\">here<\/a>g.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snake Crossing the Path Originally uploaded by sogrady. Yesterday included: My First Day of Fishing in &#8217;06 [1] My First Sunburn of the Season My First Witnessed Canadian Goose Battle [2] My First Witnessed Watersnake [3] My First Snake in the Path of the Season [4] My First Fish of the Season [5] My First<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[35,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}