{"id":3469,"date":"2016-09-02T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2016-09-02T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:07:13","slug":"fishing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"In Other Fishing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am pleased to report that the Net of Our Discontent<\/a> lived to see another fishing day, and this one was more fruitful.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sitting on the beach a few yards away from the kids, having another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is the life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moment, when I heard their voices grow louder and more excited. The three of them were huddled together, looking down. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0554\"<\/a>Sure enough, while combing the tidal pools for fish, my younger son had noticed a crab up the shore a little ways, and had managed to reach it and catch it in his net.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0565\"<\/a>Thereafter, a stare down commenced. Boy and crab sized each other up, neither moving much, while the rest of us looked on.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0570\"<\/a>Seeing the boy had no intention of backing down, in a move that startled us all, the crab grabbed the net and held fast. The kids, of course, thought this hilarious. <\/span><\/p>\n

After probably three or four minutes, however, realizing that this tug-of-net was going nowhere fast and knowing that parental approval for a new aquatic pet was nothing more than a pipe dream, my son pulled the crab to the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edge. The spell was broken, and the crab released his hold on the net. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0561\"<\/a>We stood and watched as the crab began burrowing himself into the sand, <\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0562\"<\/a>until we could no longer tell where the sand ended and the crab began. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am pleased to report that the Net of Our Discontent lived to see another fishing day, and this one was more fruitful. I was sitting on the beach a few yards away from the kids, having another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is the life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moment, when I heard their voices grow louder and more excited. The three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1924,2087,2084,105,100],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-beach-fun","tag-catching-crabs","tag-island-fishing","tag-island-life","tag-island-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}