{"id":15763,"date":"2002-07-03T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-03T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/would-be-fisherman-have-clamored-to-a-remote\/"},"modified":"2002-07-03T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-03T18:26:00","slug":"would-be-fisherman-have-clamored-to-a-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/would-be-fisherman-have-clamored-to-a-remote\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/bal-snakeheadgallery.photogallery\" title=\"northern snakehead gallery\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"northern snakehead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/snakehead.jpg\" \/><\/a>Would-be fisherman have clamored to a remote Crofton, MD pond to try and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A16448-2002Jul2.html\" target=\"_blank\">catch a northern snakehead<\/a>, a fish native to southern China that is known to devour other fish and then &ldquo;shimmy on to other ponds on its belly and fins,&rdquo; surviving &ldquo;for days out of water if it stays wet.&rdquo;  A $1,000 bounty has lured an inordinate amount of people and at least as many reporters, but so far only two snakeheads have been caught.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78517343?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would-be fisherman have clamored to a remote Crofton, MD pond to try and catch a northern snakehead, a fish native to southern China that is known to devour other fish and then &ldquo;shimmy on to other ponds on its belly and fins,&rdquo; surviving &ldquo;for days out of water if it stays wet.&rdquo; A $1,000 bounty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/would-be-fisherman-have-clamored-to-a-remote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}