{"id":83,"date":"2009-03-14T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T09:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T10:54:17","slug":"achigan-20090314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Achigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3352695155\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1143\/3352695155_d46c254904.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3352695155\/\">Achigan-20090314<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;. and this morning this chap caught these Wide mouthed Bass off the pontoon. They&#8217;re very good eating and a prized game fish in the States, though little known this side of the Atlantic. In Portugal they&#8217;re known as Achigan; the origin of the word apparently is &#8220;Michigan&#8221; as the first imported fish to Portugal came from the lake of that name.<br \/>\n(Unfortunately for me the poor chap has the sailing boat&#8217;s mast coming out of the top of his head &#8211; which I should really have got rid of in Photoshop before posting this entry, but there you go.)<br \/>\nIn the meantime, Pesca, the Quinta&#8217;s German Long haired Pointer, looks on in hope that he&#8217;ll drop a fish before he can get them back in the keep net &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achigan-20090314, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. &#8230;. and this morning this chap caught these Wide mouthed Bass off the pontoon. They&#8217;re very good eating and a prized game fish in the States, though little known this side of the Atlantic. In Portugal they&#8217;re known as Achigan; the origin of the word apparently is &#8220;Michigan&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,13],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing","category-lake","tag-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}