{"id":1165,"date":"2012-10-19T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:21:21","slug":"were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/were-back\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re back&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121002_145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1166\" title=\"20121002_14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121002_145-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.and Wales looked just as it&#8217;s supposed to.\u00a0 We spent five leisurely days sight-seeing, eating and mostly de-compressing after a hectic year.\u00a0 The quality of the food was a particular surprise and each evening we debated salmon vs. lamb and wished we could have both.<\/p>\n<p>As for cattle, we were introduced to the Welsh black and Wooz liked them enough to buy a painting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121002_3711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1167\" title=\"20121002_371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121002_3711-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>But\u00a0as much as we enjoyed Wales, we were anxious to move on to Devon.\u00a0 And cresting the hill and seeing Exmoor laid out before us,\u00a0felt like\u00a0coming home.\u00a0 For the next week we stayed with good friends&#8230;.and looked at beautiful animals.\u00a0 In coming days we&#8217;ll share each stop with you.\u00a0 Brian and Maureen, Ivan and Joan, Juliet and Chris,\u00a0Shiamala, Gavin, Sheila,Margaret and Donald.\u00a0Only Angus (unfortunate name, that) was off being a copper.\u00a0 This has been a busy year for coppers in England.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, in coming days we&#8217;ll review each stop and share photos of some beautiful cattle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and Wales looked just as it&#8217;s supposed to.\u00a0 We spent five leisurely days sight-seeing, eating and mostly de-compressing after a hectic year.\u00a0 The quality of the food was a particular surprise and each evening we debated salmon vs. lamb and wished we could have both. As for cattle, we were introduced to the Welsh black and Wooz liked them enough to buy a painting. But\u00a0as much as we enjoyed Wales, we were anxious to move on to Devon.\u00a0 And cresting the hill and seeing Exmoor laid out before us,\u00a0felt like\u00a0coming home.\u00a0 For the next week we stayed with good friends&#8230;.and looked at beautiful animals.\u00a0 In coming days we&#8217;ll share each stop with you.\u00a0 Brian and Maureen, Ivan and Joan, Juliet and Chris,\u00a0Shiamala, Gavin, Sheila,Margaret and Donald.\u00a0Only Angus (unfortunate name, that) was off being a copper.\u00a0 This has been a busy year for coppers in England. As I said, in coming days we&#8217;ll review each stop and share photos of some beautiful cattle. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}