{"id":2285,"date":"2013-06-15T06:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2013-06-15T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:18:26","slug":"the-latest-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-latest-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest “project”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130615_15\"<\/a>…is a new shed covering the working chute.\u00a0 Farm manager Duane Ard sets the posts while, once again, I do the hard part.\u00a0 Taking the picture.<\/p>\n

The previous shed was destroyed by fire, probably a malfunction of the electric fence charger because of a lightning strike.\u00a0 The idea is to shade the cows (and me) while they’re waiting for new ear tags.\u00a0 We’re also adding a new scale downstream.<\/p>\n

We used to have the scale positioned just before the squeeze chute but some of the cows balked at walking onto the metal, adding a minor bit of stress and delay to the proceedings.\u00a0\u00a0That can be\u00a0problem when you’re working 30 cows or trying to separate out calves.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking we’ll have a shed-warming in about two weeks.\u00a0 Whoops, bad choice of words.\u00a0 Let’s say:\u00a0 shed open house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is a new shed covering the working chute.\u00a0 Farm manager Duane Ard sets the posts while, once again, I do the hard part.\u00a0 Taking the picture. The previous shed was destroyed by fire, probably a malfunction of the electric fence charger because of a lightning strike.\u00a0 The idea is to shade the cows (and me) while they’re waiting for new ear tags.\u00a0 We’re also adding a new scale downstream. We used to have the scale positioned just before the squeeze chute but some of the cows balked at walking onto the metal, adding a minor bit of stress and delay to the proceedings.\u00a0\u00a0That can be\u00a0problem when you’re working 30 cows or trying to separate out calves. I’m thinking we’ll have a shed-warming in about two weeks.\u00a0 Whoops, bad choice of words.\u00a0 Let’s say:\u00a0 shed open house.<\/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-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}