{"id":3180,"date":"2015-01-18T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2015-01-18T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:55:45","slug":"fishing-terms-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Terms Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Catch and Release:<br \/>\nA conservation motion that happens most often right before the local Fish and Game officer pulls over a boat that has caught over it&#8217;s limit.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Hook:<br \/>\nA curved piece of metal used to catch fish.<br \/>\nA clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his life savings on a new rod and reel.<br \/>\nThe punch administered by said fisherman&#8217;s wife after he spends their life savings (see also, Right Hook, Left Hook).<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Line:<br \/>\nSomething you give your coworkers when they ask on Monday how your fishing went the past weekend.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Lure:<br \/>\nAn object that is semi-enticing to fish, but will drive an angler into such a frenzy that he will charge his credit card to the limit before exiting the tackle shop.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Reel:<br \/>\nA weighted object that causes a rod to sink quickly when dropped overboard.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Rod:<br \/>\nAn attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>School:<br \/>\nA grouping in which fish are taught to avoid your $29.99 lures and hold out for spam instead.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Tackle:<br \/>\nWhat your last catch did to you as you reeled him in, but just before he wrestled free and jumped back overboard.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Tackle Box:<br \/>\nA box shaped alarmingly like your comprehensive first aid kit. Only a tackle box contains many sharp objects, so that when you reach in the wrong box blindly to get a Band Aid, you soon find  that you need more than one.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Test:<br \/>\nThe amount of strength a fishing line affords an angler when fighting fish in a specific weight range.<br \/>\nA measure of your creativity in blaming &#8220;that darn line&#8221; for once again losing the fish.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch and Release: A conservation motion that happens most often right before the local Fish and Game officer pulls over a boat that has caught over it&#8217;s limit. Hook: A curved piece of metal used to catch fish. A clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his life savings on a new rod and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[651],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}