{"id":2395,"date":"2019-05-08T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2019-05-10T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:06:11","slug":"gone-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Gone Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m going fly fishing next week. My friend Jerry is taking me to his favorite stream in Colorado.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have time for this. There are deadlines for the book, one of our rentals is empty and I have a construction project that is behind schedule.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m going anyway. Because, ever since I was a young boy fishing with salmon eggs for the small rainbows around Red River, New Mexico, I\u2019ve wanted to fly fish. I\u2019d watch my dad standing midstream in his waders, making those effortless back and forth casts, for which the genre is known.<\/p>\n

If my rod were a harmonica, his was a violin, playing with a grace and art unattainable to bait fishing.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m going because, a few years ago, I watched \u201cA River Runs Through It.\u201d<\/p>\n

Need I say more?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m practicing my casts this week. So far it\u2019s not looking good.<\/p>\n

***
\n\u201cIn our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.\u201d
\n\u2015 Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going fly fishing next week. My friend Jerry is taking me to his favorite stream in Colorado. I don\u2019t have time for this. There are deadlines for the book, one of our rentals is empty and I have a construction project that is behind schedule. But I\u2019m going anyway. Because, ever since I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}