{"id":2526,"date":"2013-08-17T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2013-08-17T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:50:11","slug":"end-of-an-era-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/end-of-an-era-2\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2527\" alt=\"39[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3911-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.came in a phone call from one of our English partners, Brian Drake, of North Tawton.\u00a0 Brian poses here with the American members of the team:\u00a0 Bill Walker, John Forelle and myself.<\/p>\n<p>No one we know has been breeding Devon any longer than Brian.\u00a0 He took over his father&#8217;s herd in 1950 and his Essington Park genetics can be found in most of the herds in England.\u00a0 We&#8217;re fortunate that we were able to flush his wonderful cow Buttercup and one of her sons is approaching his first birthday here in the States.\u00a0 More are on the way!<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s leaving the Devon world, he remains a good friend.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing he and Maureen and their son, Stephen, in the Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.came in a phone call from one of our English partners, Brian Drake, of North Tawton.\u00a0 Brian poses here with the American members of the team:\u00a0 Bill Walker, John Forelle and myself. No one we know has been breeding Devon any longer than Brian.\u00a0 He took over his father&#8217;s herd in 1950 and his Essington Park genetics can be found in most of the herds in England.\u00a0 We&#8217;re fortunate that we were able to flush his wonderful cow Buttercup and one of her sons is approaching his first birthday here in the States.\u00a0 More are on the way! While he&#8217;s leaving the Devon world, he remains a good friend.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing he and Maureen and their son, Stephen, in the Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","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=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}