{"id":64,"date":"2012-11-16T22:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:34:17","slug":"bonefish-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/bonefish-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonefish Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always Christmas, 24-7.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The<\/em><\/strong><strong> <em>Bonefish Missionaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/?attachment_id=65\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65\">Bonefish Missionaries <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over two hundred years, English, Australian and American missionaries have cast their secular nets over a small isolated outpost in the Line Islands of the North Pacific.\u00a0 Their prized catches were the hearts and minds of the Gilbertese, Polynesian descendants named after the British Sea Captain and explorer, Thomas Gilbert, who inhabit the planet\u2019s largest coral atoll of Christmas Island.<\/p>\n<p>Today a new kind of disciple preaches to devoted followers.\u00a0 Often shoeless and quick to smile, meet the \u201c<em>Bonefish Missionaries<\/em>\u201d, a handful of highly skilled native fishing guides that patiently teach a steady stream of converts who come to Christmas Island weekly to pursue Bonefish, a.k.a., the silver streak of the flats.<\/p>\n<p>Guides, like Tanaka, who learned to swim before he could walk.\u00a0 Born to become a fisherman, his knowledge of the flats and his uncanny ability to see \u201cthrough the water\u201d, provide an exciting narrative for the thousands of fly anglers that have made the pilgrimage to this Bonefish Mecca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated guides see &#8220;through the water&#8221; and find bones where we see nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}