{"id":3833,"date":"2015-12-02T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2015-12-02T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:55:55","slug":"how-to-hot-wire-a-bird-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/2015\/12\/02\/how-to-hot-wire-a-bird-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hot-Wire a Bird Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3834 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"1088\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed-332x249.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1088px) 100vw, 1088px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"float: left; color: #000; font-size: 220px; line-height: 240px; margin-top: -40px; padding-right: 30px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Garamond; margin-bottom: -50px;\">T<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"font-family: Garamond; font-size: 33px; margin-top: 0px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 35px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">he wind was ripping right along, so fast that if I\u2019d been on the water, the whitecaps would have been tearing off the tops of the waves.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However\u2014unusually for me\u2014I wasn\u2019t standing on the front deck of a flats skiff, or plying the oars as my drift boat plunged through a run. In fact, I wasn\u2019t anywhere near water, unless you count the small creek babbling on the edge of the mountain valley I found myself in. I had come to the foothills of the Appalachians in North Georgia, to a quail field, where I\u2019d asked a local to put out a few birds. It was just me, my shotgun, and the candidate: Gretchen, my three-and-a-half-year-old Wirehaired Pointing Griffin. It was time to find out what she was made of.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orvis.com\/news\/hunting\/how-to-hot-wire-a-bird-dog\/\">The Orvis News<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T he wind was ripping right along, so fast that if I\u2019d been on the water, the whitecaps would have been tearing off the tops of the waves. However\u2014unusually for me\u2014I wasn\u2019t standing on the front deck of a flats skiff, or plying the oars as my drift boat plunged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","column","onecol","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}