{"id":609,"date":"2003-04-14T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T00:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2003-04-14T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T00:49:38","slug":"going-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Going Sane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m told I was shouting in my sleep this morning again: &#8220;Sex on wheels&#8221; and then &#8220;I hate myself&#8221;. But spring is here, and Sean took a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/lunatic\/movabletype\/archives\/mychub.jpg\/andrew and chub.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/lunatic\/movabletype\/archives\/mychub.jpg\/andrew and chub.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"> photograph<\/a> to prove it.<\/p>\n\n<p>This was meant to be a trouty water, but despite a huge hatch of small, speckle-wing sedges, there was only one trout rising, in a position where it was simply impossible to reach him in the savage wind. The picture does not show that what I&#8217;m landing is in fact the biggest chub I&#8217;ve ever caught, somewhere between 3.5 and 4 pounds.<\/p>\n\n<p>Still, I saw a family of deer, a blue jay, a New Forest pony suckling, and a buzzard wheeling so low I could count the individual pinions extended at its wingtips. Sean found a jack pike so lethargic he could poke it with his rod; and saw another seizing a small fish from the surface with such a splash I thought a duck had landed.  I think I know what I&#8217;ll be doing on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/lunatic\/movabletype\/archives\/mychub.jpg\/andrew and chub-thumb.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>I sent the picture off to the Oxford Union who wanted a publicity picture for a debate I&#8217;m doing there on May 8th. Something tells me they&#8217;ll use another one instead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m told I was shouting in my sleep this morning again: &#8220;Sex on wheels&#8221; and then &#8220;I hate myself&#8221;. But spring is here, and Sean took a photograph to prove it. This was meant to be a trouty water, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}