{"id":1827,"date":"2007-02-26T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/02\/salmon_fishing\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T21:22:17","slug":"salmon_fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/salmon_fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0297851586&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nCatching up with a few recent books still. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was the Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago &#8211; you can&#8217;t miss the sticker on the cover telling you as much. The author, Paul Torday, also popped up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/fivelive\/programmes\/mayo.shtml\">Simon Mayo<\/a> book segment a couple of weeks ago to plug this book too.<br \/>\nThe plot is simple if mad. The much put-upon Alfred Jones works for a government fisheries department. One day he&#8217;s asked if it&#8217;d be possible to breed Salmon in the Yemen. He laughs it off, but political willpower being what it is &#8211; lots of bad news coming from the Middle East &#8211; that government mandarins begin to see the &#8220;strengths&#8221; of the idea, and he&#8217;s politely asked to get on with it and do the impossible.<br \/>\nThe story is told in a series of diary entries, interviews, letters, interviews and even extracts from Hansard. It&#8217;s silly, it&#8217;s playful, it&#8217;s sad and it&#8217;s happy.<br \/>\nI really enjoyed this story, and you simply don&#8217;t know quite what&#8217;s going to happen despite even the least fish-aware person realising that salmon, as a rule, prefer the climes of the North Atlantic as opposed to those of the Middle East.<br \/>\nHow could you not like a book called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up with a few recent books still. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was the Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago &#8211; you can&#8217;t miss the sticker on the cover telling you as much. The author, Paul Torday, also popped up on the Simon Mayo book segment a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}