{"id":1645,"date":"2007-07-15T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2007-07-15T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T02:46:05","slug":"calvin-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Calvin and Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a fine summer day some twenty five years ago, on our summer vacation, Dad and Calvin were fishing off a causeway on the East Fork Lake in Olney, Illinois. <\/p>\n<p>Dad, who was a born and bred panfisherman, caught an overlarge bass almost totally by accident. having no idea what the regulations were, he asked Calvin &#8220;This a keeper, Calvin?&#8221; Calvin, ever the smartass, said &#8220;No, we usually throw &#8217;em back till they get about twice that size&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Later, cleaning fish in the backyard at Calvin&#8217;s place, Calvin said &#8220;let&#8217;s clean that bass you caught&#8221;. Dad, not to be outwiseasssed, had thrown it back. Calvin went apeshit. Dad laughed until he was out of breath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a fine summer day some twenty five years ago, on our summer vacation, Dad and Calvin were fishing off a causeway on the East Fork Lake in Olney, Illinois. Dad, who was a born and bred panfisherman, caught an overlarge bass almost totally by accident. having no idea what the regulations were, he asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}