{"id":1878,"date":"2013-04-01T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2013-04-01T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T02:33:48","slug":"a-harsh-life-sometimes-even-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-harsh-life-sometimes-even-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A harsh life sometimes&#8230;even today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.almost daily, we hear of heart-breaking stories of cattlemen who have had to give up because of the drought\u00a0which has killed everything green in so much of the country.\u00a0 There is no magic or modern miracle to save them.\u00a0 And most of the country isn&#8217;t even aware of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Nature really can&#8217;t be tamed.\u00a0 Easy to forget today in cities where everything is at the push of the button and the meat in the grocery stores comes from &#8220;animals that were not harmed&#8221; in the process.\u00a0 Easy to forget even at Thistle Hill, though we&#8217;ve lost calves on rare occasion in snow drifts or bitter cold.<\/p>\n<p>So we feel great sympathy for these farmers in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/photographers-blog\/2013\/03\/28\/no-happy-endings-in-nature\/\">http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/photographers-blog\/2013\/03\/28\/no-happy-endings-in-nature\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.almost daily, we hear of heart-breaking stories of cattlemen who have had to give up because of the drought\u00a0which has killed everything green in so much of the country.\u00a0 There is no magic or modern miracle to save them.\u00a0 And most of the country isn&#8217;t even aware of the tragedy. Nature really can&#8217;t be tamed.\u00a0 Easy to forget today in cities where everything is at the push of the button and the meat in the grocery stores comes from &#8220;animals that were not harmed&#8221; in the process.\u00a0 Easy to forget even at Thistle Hill, though we&#8217;ve lost calves on rare occasion in snow drifts or bitter cold. So we feel great sympathy for these farmers in Ireland. http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/photographers-blog\/2013\/03\/28\/no-happy-endings-in-nature\/<\/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-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}