{"id":1655,"date":"2013-02-13T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:19:17","slug":"setting-some-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/setting-some-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting some standards&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img20130209_12352241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1656\" alt=\"img20130209_12352241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img20130209_12352241-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img20130209_12352241-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img20130209_12352241-1024x693.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.there is debate from time to time (one is going on now) within Devon circles about what makes &#8220;a proper Devon&#8221;.\u00a0 Folks can get pretty dogmatic,\u00a0and some in the two Devon associations think they should impose the answer.<\/p>\n<p>My old &#8220;mate&#8221; in Cornwall, Ivan Rowe, came up with this old picture to make his point.\u00a0 She is a Devon heifer&#8212;Clampit Gay Lass 27th&#8212;female winner of five shows in 1929 and Grand Champion in three of them!\u00a0 As a longtime judge for the British Devon society, he &#8220;knows one when he sees one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I would call <em>Gay Lass<\/em> the <em>Tilbrook Cashtiller<\/em> of her era.<\/p>\n<p>It was when we saw the Devon in Ivan Rowe&#8217;s <em>Goldings<\/em> herd at Lands End in Cornwall that our Traditional Devon project began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.there is debate from time to time (one is going on now) within Devon circles about what makes &#8220;a proper Devon&#8221;.\u00a0 Folks can get pretty dogmatic,\u00a0and some in the two Devon associations think they should impose the answer. My old &#8220;mate&#8221; in Cornwall, Ivan Rowe, came up with this old picture to make his point.\u00a0 She is a Devon heifer&#8212;Clampit Gay Lass 27th&#8212;female winner of five shows in 1929 and Grand Champion in three of them!\u00a0 As a longtime judge for the British Devon society, he &#8220;knows one when he sees one&#8221;. I would call Gay Lass the Tilbrook Cashtiller of her era. It was when we saw the Devon in Ivan Rowe&#8217;s Goldings herd at Lands End in Cornwall that our Traditional Devon project began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-england"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}