{"id":23932,"date":"2009-11-23T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23932"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:10:48","slug":"kayak-catching-tuna-and-hanging-on-for-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23932","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; Catching Tuna and Hanging On for the Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dave Lamoureux\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kayak, named Fortitude, must be the only one in Massachusetts registered as a motor vessel. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because a powerboat registration is required to get a permit to fish for tuna here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apparently, it never occurred to the authorities that someone might be crazy enough to want to catch a bluefin while sitting in what amounts to a floating plastic chair and enjoying what Melville called a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nantucket sleigh ride.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since the end of July, Lamoureux has &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/sports\/23fishing.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Lamoureux\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kayak, named Fortitude, must be the only one in Massachusetts registered as a motor vessel. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because a powerboat registration is required to get a permit to fish for tuna here. Apparently, it never occurred to the authorities that someone might be crazy enough to want to catch a bluefin while sitting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23934,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}