{"id":2339,"date":"2010-07-04T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2010-07-04T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T13:30:44","slug":"chronicler-of-adirondack-north-country-outdoors-dennis-aprill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/04\/chronicler-of-adirondack-north-country-outdoors-dennis-aprill-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicler of Adirondack-North Country outdoors, Dennis Aprill, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked and dismayed this morning to read on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1385497830\/P-R-Outdoors-Writer-Dennis-Aprill-dies\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>&#8216;s website that Dennis Aprill passed away on Saturday, after a battle with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis&#8217;s writing in the P-R captured hundreds (thousands?) of tales of the sportsman&#8217;s life in the North Country.\u00a0 His fishing guidebook has been a staple on my shelf for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>I used him often as a resource and an expert on stories that I was attempting to cover with my amateur&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p>To get a sense for Dennis&#8217;s passion and energy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/5482\/trout-season-opens\">check out this conversation<\/a> between Dennis and our own Todd Moe about trout fishing from 2005, or this\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/6836\/a-winter-walk-through-an-adirondack-bog\">2006 feature<\/a> where the pair of them went on a winter walk in the woods near Union Falls.<\/p>\n<p>This from the Press-Republican remembrance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The North Country has lost a great friend with the passing of Dennis  Aprill,&#8221; said William H. Wellman, Region 5 vice president for the New  York State Council of Trout Unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of us love the  outdoors but few of us can express it the way Dennis did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked and dismayed this morning to read on the Plattsburgh Press-Republican&#8216;s website that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}