{"id":1015,"date":"2009-03-12T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/03\/old-fisherman-never-die.html"},"modified":"2009-03-12T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T11:56:00","slug":"old-fisherman-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/03\/old-fisherman-never-die.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Fisherman Never Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfdailynews.com\/news\/boat_15718___article.html\/reports_foot.html\">This story<\/a> about four people in Florida who were found fishing off their sinking pontoon boat while awaiting rescue, reminds me of my father when I was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons I don&#8217;t recall (other than perhaps that I was a teenage boy) one day up at the lake, my father mother and younger sister went out fishing, leaving me at the cottage.  While a good 20 minutes away from the dock, his engine died.  No danger of sinking mind you, just stranded.  A young man happened along in another boat and offered to bring my sister back to get me so I could tow him in. <\/p>\n<p>As the boat pulled away, leaving my mom and dad bobbing in the waves, it was not the fact that my dad had just sent my 13-year old sister off in a boat with a strange man that sent Mom over the edge.  It was the fact that my dad knew he had a good hour to kill, so he got out his fishing pole.  Apparently, he lacked the good sense to panic.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it was all fine.  My sister was not kidnapped.  (This was the 70&#8217;s and 24-hour cable news hadn&#8217;t been invented yet, so stuff like that only happened to other people.)  And I was able to go tow him in.  The only lasting scar is that Mom is subjected to periodic ribbing about this, apparently even still.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story about four people in Florida who were found fishing off their sinking pontoon boat while awaiting rescue, reminds<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/03\/old-fisherman-never-die.html\" title=\"Read Old Fisherman Never Die\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}