{"id":8059,"date":"2011-11-10T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/11\/10\/ill-finally-get-to-know-whether-great-blue-heron-tastes-like-chicken-or-not\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T14:40:03","slug":"ill-finally-get-to-know-whether-great-blue-heron-tastes-like-chicken-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/11\/10\/ill-finally-get-to-know-whether-great-blue-heron-tastes-like-chicken-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I&rsquo;ll finally get to know whether Great Blue Heron tastes like Chicken or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Guy_Fawkes.jpg\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Guy_Fawkes\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Guy_Fawkes_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Guy_Fawkes\" width=\"244\" height=\"144\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong> It was painful watching<\/strong> the Republican debates the other night, what with each candidate insisting they\u2019d remove any regulations that slowed job growth. It appears our\u00a0rivers and estuaries will be drilled like a root canal, most migratory species extincted, and a steady runoff of industrial waste and toxins into whatever you fish most \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and\u00a0all them students clapping merrily as if they\u2019d heard profound for the first time &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren\u2019t any smarter and it\u2019s liable to be a tough couple of decades if the pursuit of jobs and deregulation meets the Son of Global Warming.<\/p>\n<p>While us fishermen mill about in disarray, given all our hard-fought environmental protections suddenly under scrutiny, and most of our conservationist bodies still fighting over felt soles and \u201cwho stepped in what\u201d we might have to form our own clandestine \u201cOccupy The Esopus\u201d movement \u2013 with what remains of\u00a0angling\u2019s lunatic fringe \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Which aren\u2019t as plentiful as they once were. Caring for the fish was overtaken by \u201ccaring more about your rakish figure in outdoor duds\u201d \u2013 how the thousand dollar fly rod and the Cafe Mocha neutered most of our real outdoorsy types, them that lacked a full set of teeth or most of their frontal lobe &#8211; and thought like fish do. The rest of us didn\u2019t help as we gave them the cold shoulder thinking\u00a0they gave the rest of us a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld Timey Conservation\u201d meant if you found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2011\/10\/bomb_squad_headed_to_cullman_c.html\">12 sticks of dynamite on the creekbed<\/a> we might\u2019ve drawn short straw for which dam to make porous, or showed some real\u00a0ingenuity by making the\u00a0casting club pond manager decide to lengthen the\u00a0club&#8217;s ponds (with a bit of Fourth of July pyrotechnics) to accommodate\u00a0a Spey class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 but to merely give it back to the law, that\u2019s a waste.<\/p>\n<p>The damn environmental element isn\u2019t mad enough yet to understand that what you tracked onto the kitchen linoleum with your contagion-bearing felt soles could soon be the least of your environmental worries.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping you all listened closely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:847fc683-d18f-4527-b67f-a5f013631b11\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/republican+debate\" rel=\"tag\">republican debate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Old+Timey+Conservation\" rel=\"tag\">Old Timey Conservation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/dynamite\" rel=\"tag\">dynamite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/fly+fishermen\" rel=\"tag\">fly fishermen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Occupy+the+Esopus\" rel=\"tag\">Occupy the Esopus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/creek+cleanup\" rel=\"tag\">creek cleanup<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/thousand+dollar+fly+rod\" rel=\"tag\">thousand dollar fly rod<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was painful watching the Republican debates the other night, what with each candidate insisting they\u2019d remove any regulations that slowed job growth. It appears our\u00a0rivers and estuaries will be drilled like a root canal, most migratory species extincted, and a steady runoff of industrial waste and toxins into whatever you fish most \u2026 \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-current-events","category-fly-fishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8063,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}