{"id":2748,"date":"2008-06-15T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T23:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/15\/fathers-day-is-and-other-matte\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T23:38:05","slug":"fathers-day-is-and-other-matte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/fathers-day-is-and-other-matte\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers&#8217;Day Is&#8230; And other matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. something I never encouraged.  But these days it is practiced in my extended family.  So what did I get and what does it all mean?<!--more-->Two shirts, a subscription to Linux Journal, and something else that is still a surprise I don&#8217;t know yet.Mothers&#8217; day was invented a very long time ago and may even go back to the ancient Greeks.  It is usually celebrated around the Ides of March.  Father&#8217;s day was an afterthought by many, many centuries, invented in the early 20th century, presumably by Hallmark Cards Inc.The fishing started to get good this weekend.  Julia and I caught a few bass, but cousin Michael swamped us all with two Giant Northerns.  And, we had a very interesting odd fish behavior sighting that I will report soon, but not tonight.  More research is needed first.  But I&#8217;ll tell you this:  It has to do with North America&#8217;s only cannibalistic lungfish &#8230; of sorts.  Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. something I never encouraged. But these days it is practiced in my extended family. So what did I get and what does it all mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Ik","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}