{"id":10,"date":"2006-05-29T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/10-catfish-facts"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:42:54","slug":"catfish-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/10-catfish-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfish Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Catfish\" alt=\"Catfish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/catfish.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Catfish are tasty, they&#8217;re funny looking, and they can sting you if you&#8217;re not careful.\u00a0 But what else do you know about this plentiful fish?\u00a0 Test your knowledge with these ten fun facts about catfish:<\/p>\n<p>1. Catfish are found in every state in the United States, except Alaska, and on every continent except for Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>2. Catfish are basically warm water fish.\u00a0 They inhabit mud-bottomed rivers, creeks, lakes, and ponds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n3. Catfish are named for their long whiskers, which are similar to those of a cat&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>4. There are 37 different catfish families.\u00a0 The last was just discovered in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>5. Catfish have no scales.<\/p>\n<p>6. June 25 is designated National Catfish Day in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>7. The largest catfish ever caught weighed 645 pounds.\u00a0 It was a Giant Mekong catfish, caught in Thailand in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>8. Catfish is the leading farm-raised fishing crop in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>9. Over ninety percent of United States domestic catfish comes from Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>10. Catfish are a staple in southern American cuisine.\u00a0 They are delicious fried, saut\u00c3\u00a9ed, grilled, and baked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catfish are tasty, they&#8217;re funny looking, and they can sting you if you&#8217;re not careful.\u00a0 But what else do you know about this plentiful fish?\u00a0 Test your knowledge with these ten fun facts about catfish: 1. Catfish are found in every state in the United States, except Alaska, and on every continent except for Antarctica. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}