{"id":11928,"date":"2012-09-12T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2012-09-16T06:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T11:43:53","slug":"grenade-fishing-youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/grenade-fishing-youre-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenade Fishing: You&#8217;re Doing It Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not actually supposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20120911\/NEWS01\/309110089\/Who-will-believe-this-one-Fellows-Lake-fisherman-hooks-a-hand-grenade?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\" target=\"_blank\">reel in the grenade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matt Tucker caught a couple of bass at Fellows Lake this morning \u2014 and fished out a live hand grenade as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker, a Springfield firefighter, said he was casting a lure near the highway bridge on the east side of the lake, when he hooked a tangle of line on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>He noticed an old sock near his lure and pulled the odd bit of trash out of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the sock? A Vietnam-era pineapple hand grenade with the safety pin still intact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people can&#8217;t even grenade fish right.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>  Welcome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2012\/09\/15\/Fisherman-Reels-in-Live-Grenade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama readers<\/a>.  You might have heard John Farrier call me &#8220;novelist Brian J. Noggle&#8221; because my comic IT Heist novel <em>John Donnelly&#8217;s Gold<\/em> is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983212309\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=0983212309\" target=\"_blank\">in paperback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051OZ5SC\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=B0051OZ5SC\" target=\"_blank\">for the Kindle for 99 cents<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/john-donnellys-gold\/id465762857?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">at the iTunes store<\/a> for you iPad people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not actually supposed to reel in the grenade: Matt Tucker caught a couple of bass at Fellows Lake this morning \u2014 and fished out a live hand grenade as well. Tucker, a Springfield firefighter, said he was casting a lure near the highway bridge on the east side of the lake, when he hooked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}