{"id":3153,"date":"2023-02-14T18:32:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2023-06-03T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T01:21:56","slug":"fishing-for-fun-and-to-wash-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"<em>Fishing for Fun, and to Wash your Soul<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Herbert Hoover, edited by William Nichols, 1964, Random House, New York <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book was in a box of books that I inherited from my grandmother back in the 1990&#8217;s.  I hadn&#8217;t read it until recently when I decided to share it with our book club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is a delightful collection of Herbert Hoover&#8217;s thoughts on the joys and other aspects of fishing.  It&#8217;s only 89 pages and it took about an hour to read. The book was published in 1964 which is the same year he died, but I don&#8217;t know how it came to be.  Perhaps it was a tribute to Hoover? It does contain some ideas that are outdated in 2023 (such as Hoover&#8217;s belief that it would be too costly to clean up rivers and streams that are already polluted and the idea that a fisherman should be entitled to catch as much fish as he likes), but most of his thoughts about fishing are valid today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, it&#8217;s a fun read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Herbert Hoover, edited by William Nichols, 1964, Random House, New York This book was in a box of books that I inherited from my grandmother back in the 1990&#8217;s. I hadn&#8217;t read it until recently when I decided to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3153\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}