{"id":1253,"date":"2015-06-16T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2015-06-16T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:49:29","slug":"ffv-july-16th-dinner-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"FFV July 16th Dinner Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our July dinner speaker will be Orvis-endorsed guide, \u00a0Matt Miles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NewMatty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NewMatty-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NewMatty\" width=\"494\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NewMatty-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NewMatty-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NewMatty.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Matt Miles grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia and started fly fishing in 1993. In 1996, after graduating from high school, he moved to Colorado to live out his dream of becoming a fly fishing guide. While in Colorado he met Pat Dorsey, an expert fly fishing guide for the Blue Quill Angler, author, and photographer. Matt started guiding with Pat at the Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, Colorado in 1997 where he guided over 700 trips. In 2003 Matt decided to move back to Lynchburg to guide his home waters. Matt&#8217;s passion is guiding, teaching, and being on the water. He also ties his own flies and is a fly designer for Umpqua Feather Merchants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our July dinner speaker will be Orvis-endorsed guide, \u00a0Matt Miles. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Matt Miles grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia and started fly fishing in 1993. In 1996, after graduating from high school, he moved to Colorado to live out his dream of becoming a fly fishing guide. While in Colorado he met Pat Dorsey, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/?p=1253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersofvirginia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}