{"id":92731,"date":"2017-11-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:59:01","slug":"fishing-as-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/fishing-as-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing As A Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MAIacJISlGY\/UJIbRJDVOHI\/AAAAAAAACYA\/XkBjJf7yiMU\/s1600\/7320779_9608997715.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/7320779_9608997715.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-92732\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, Thomas Birch a keeper of books at the British Museum, was a keen fisherman who devised an unusual way of disguising his intentions. Dressed as a tree, he stood by the side of a stream in an outfit designed to make his arms seem like branches and the rod and line a spray of blossom. Any movement, he argued, would be taken by a fish to be the consequence of a mild breeze.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sir Humphrey Davy. The distinguished chemist, improved on the idea half a century later. His&nbsp;preferred&nbsp;costume consisted of a green coat, green breeches and an old green hat. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn this attire,\u201d wrote Cordy Jefferson, \u201cDavy flattered himself he resembled vegetable life as closely as it was possible for mortal man to do.\u201d <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On shooting expeditions, Davy made himself as conspicuous as possible in order not to be shot by mistake. Usually, he wore a large scarlet hat. One of his friends amusingly pointed out that the hat put him in danger of being shot by an anti-cleric, who mistook him for a cardinal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18th century, Thomas Birch a keeper of books at the British Museum, was a keen fisherman who devised an unusual way of disguising his intentions. Dressed as a tree, he stood by the side of a stream in an outfit designed to make his arms seem like branches and the rod and line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}