{"id":689,"date":"2008-09-01T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:46","slug":"a-day-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"A day on the river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Okay so&#8230; this whole boat thing is kinda novel and the learning curve is pretty steep, too. Sitting here typing, I still feel myself rocking back and forth, kinda like you feel after a day spent rollerskating. Very disconcerting. I almost think I may be seasick. Is that even possible or did I just get too much sun?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaybrian.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240865511704060258\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaybrian-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Mention a boat and my brother Brian magically appears. Our idea today was to do some crabbing, so Bri found himself in charge of cutting bait, which I learned he&#8217;s pretty good at.<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayworms.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240865360679367314\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayworms-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I also learned he&#8217;s really squeamish about these worms&#8230; nasty things he was using for the fishing poles. They made him squirm like a girl. Very funny.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayme.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240865236766204770\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayme-300x199.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I really need to do something with my hair. Could it maybe stick up in one more different direction?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaymutes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240865116660294946\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaymutes-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I was surprised (boo hiss!) to find mute swans on the river&#8230;<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayoystercatcher.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240864990569893682\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordayoystercatcher-300x162.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Nice, though, was this oystercatcher feeding near a sandbar. They are such cool birds. It&#8217;s very hard to take pics on a rocking boat&#8230; though at this time we were almost stuck on that sandbar.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaygoofball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240864854575363906\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaygoofball-215x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Have I mentioned that my brother is a total goofball?   You&#8217;re suppossed to stay in the boat!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaycrabs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240864434427854674\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaycrabs-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">So&#8230; we didn&#8217;t catch many crabs at all, but Bri did the goofy fisherman grin anyway. A bad day fishing&#8230;. (you know the rest)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaycalicocrab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240864541237629938\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/labordaycalicocrab-237x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">He got the pretty blue claws, but I got this tiny little calico crab that didn&#8217;t even try to bite me.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay so&#8230; this whole boat thing is kinda novel and the learning curve is pretty steep, too. Sitting here typing, I still feel myself rocking back and forth, kinda like you feel after a day spent rollerskating. Very disconcerting. I almost think I may be seasick. Is that even possible or did I just get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A day on the river<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4,2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}