{"id":1479,"date":"2013-01-06T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-01-06T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:29:50","slug":"reality-settling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/reality-settling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reality&#8221; settling in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130106_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1480\" alt=\"20130106_7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130106_7-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We promised a picture of <em>Thistle Hill Reality<\/em> without the dramatic sunset lighting&#8230;.and here it is.\u00a0 Like most young bulls, he finds the heifers on the other side of the fence more attractive.\u00a0 So he did go wandering last night&#8230;into our neighbor&#8217;s herd of commercial Angus.<\/p>\n<p>But Thistle Hill bulls are always gentlemen.\u00a0 First, <em>Reality<\/em> didn&#8217;t tear down fence, or jump.\u00a0 He just found a gate that had been left open in a back corner and went through.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, our neighbor, Kathy Hartz, simply walked him back through a lot of pasture and to an adjacent corner.\u00a0 We opened the gate and he ambled back through.\u00a0 Despite a stranger and a woman at that, no sticks, and no shouting&#8230;.<em>Reality<\/em> behaved beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is just three&#8230;the result of combining Rotokawa 974 and 667 genetics.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this promising young bull, just scroll down to the previous story:\u00a0 &#8220;You Can Go Home Again (2)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We promised a picture of Thistle Hill Reality without the dramatic sunset lighting&#8230;.and here it is.\u00a0 Like most young bulls, he finds the heifers on the other side of the fence more attractive.\u00a0 So he did go wandering last night&#8230;into our neighbor&#8217;s herd of commercial Angus. But Thistle Hill bulls are always gentlemen.\u00a0 First, Reality didn&#8217;t tear down fence, or jump.\u00a0 He just found a gate that had been left open in a back corner and went through. This morning, our neighbor, Kathy Hartz, simply walked him back through a lot of pasture and to an adjacent corner.\u00a0 We opened the gate and he ambled back through.\u00a0 Despite a stranger and a woman at that, no sticks, and no shouting&#8230;.Reality behaved beautifully. Reality is just three&#8230;the result of combining Rotokawa 974 and 667 genetics. For more on this promising young bull, just scroll down to the previous story:\u00a0 &#8220;You Can Go Home Again (2)&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-docility","category-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}