{"id":2141,"date":"2013-05-20T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:15:29","slug":"what-theyre-paid-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/what-theyre-paid-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What they&#8217;re paid to do&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2142\" alt=\"20130519_9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519_9-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.it&#8217;s always interesting to welcome visitors to Thistle Hill and listen to their reactions.\u00a0 And if possible we time it so they can help move our cows.\u00a0 You see them better when they parade single file right into the new paddock.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Taylor of Vermont, who came by this weekend, was struck by the uniformity of the cows and their docility.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still setting up his farm but wisely he is using this time to see &#8220;what&#8217;s out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2143\" alt=\"20130519_21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519_21-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sorry, not this one.\u00a0 That&#8217;s <em>&#8220;THF Jackpot&#8221;, <\/em>who we used for the first time earlier this year on a small group of cows.\u00a0 If his calves turn out as well as he did, he&#8217;ll be one of our main herd bulls for two more years.\u00a0 Maybe just about the time Ed is ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.it&#8217;s always interesting to welcome visitors to Thistle Hill and listen to their reactions.\u00a0 And if possible we time it so they can help move our cows.\u00a0 You see them better when they parade single file right into the new paddock. Ed Taylor of Vermont, who came by this weekend, was struck by the uniformity of the cows and their docility.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still setting up his farm but wisely he is using this time to see &#8220;what&#8217;s out there.&#8221; Sorry, not this one.\u00a0 That&#8217;s &#8220;THF Jackpot&#8221;, who we used for the first time earlier this year on a small group of cows.\u00a0 If his calves turn out as well as he did, he&#8217;ll be one of our main herd bulls for two more years.\u00a0 Maybe just about the time Ed is ready.<\/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-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}