{"id":1852,"date":"2013-03-25T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:42:38","slug":"cant-forget-the-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/cant-forget-the-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t forget the pigs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1853\" alt=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo1-e1364222685598-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.they seem to do just fine in the snow and cold despite very short hair.<\/p>\n<p>We do give them an extra ration in bad weather.\u00a0 And this\u00a0is a good time to note that we now are giving them non-GMO feed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always bothered us that the one weak link in our &#8220;doing things naturally&#8221; process was that we were forced to feed regular grain.<\/p>\n<p>Recently we found a source down in\u00a0the Shenandoah Valley that grows non-GMO feed and, better yet, sells it at a reasonable price.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve made the switch without increasing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, like our cows, our pigs are now truly &#8220;doing what comes naturally&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.they seem to do just fine in the snow and cold despite very short hair. We do give them an extra ration in bad weather.\u00a0 And this\u00a0is a good time to note that we now are giving them non-GMO feed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always bothered us that the one weak link in our &#8220;doing things naturally&#8221; process was that we were forced to feed regular grain. Recently we found a source down in\u00a0the Shenandoah Valley that grows non-GMO feed and, better yet, sells it at a reasonable price.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve made the switch without increasing costs. Best of all, like our cows, our pigs are now truly &#8220;doing what comes naturally&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmo","category-pigs-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}