{"id":2637,"date":"2013-09-23T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2013-09-23T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:55:42","slug":"parade-bulls-esprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/parade-bulls-esprit\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade of bulls&#8230;.Esprit&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2640\" alt=\"20130922_47\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_471.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_471.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_471-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Esprit<\/em>&#8230;.aka <em>180-6<\/em>&#8230;is the result of a mating between our &#8220;wow cow&#8221;, as one cattleman called her, and the famed <em>Rotokawa 688<\/em>.\u00a0 Frankly, he was slow to mature but now we&#8217;re glad we waited.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not quite two he has a lot of growing still to do.<\/p>\n<p>We like the combination of Rotokawa genetics with some of our best cows.\u00a0 They seem to do best in the Virginia heat. His dam, <em>Lakota 180<\/em>, consistently produces our top bulls.<\/p>\n<p><em>Esprit<\/em> is polled and was bon in October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esprit&#8230;.aka 180-6&#8230;is the result of a mating between our &#8220;wow cow&#8221;, as one cattleman called her, and the famed Rotokawa 688.\u00a0 Frankly, he was slow to mature but now we&#8217;re glad we waited.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not quite two he has a lot of growing still to do. We like the combination of Rotokawa genetics with some of our best cows.\u00a0 They seem to do best in the Virginia heat. His dam, Lakota 180, consistently produces our top bulls. Esprit is polled and was bon in October 2011. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","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=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}