{"id":2681,"date":"2013-10-01T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2013-10-01T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:15:21","slug":"thistle-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/thistle-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Thistle Hill (and then some)&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the greatest reward we find is helping others start their Devon herds.\u00a0 The excitement experienced by newcomers to the breed is infectious and never fails to remind us of our own original pleasure discovering these great cows.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Linda Hendrix and her son, John, of Pacolet, South Carolina.\u00a0 In just two years they&#8217;ve grown to 15 females and an outstanding bull&#8230;.all originating here in Virginia.\u00a0 We were in neighboring North Carolina last weekend, and jumped at the chance to see how our charges were faring in their new home.\u00a0 They could not be doing better.<\/p>\n<p>Expect great things from <em>Misty Ridge <\/em>(Linda)\u00a0and <em>Plum Branch\u00a0<\/em>(John)\u00a0farms in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2682\" alt=\"20130929_71\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_713-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2668\" alt=\"20130929_57\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_57-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_1231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2684\" alt=\"20130929_123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_1231-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2673\" alt=\"20130929_131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_131-e1380675819128-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_140-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2680\" alt=\"20130929_140 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_140-2-e1380675603783-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2678\" alt=\"20130929_133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130929_133-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the greatest reward we find is helping others start their Devon herds.\u00a0 The excitement experienced by newcomers to the breed is infectious and never fails to remind us of our own original pleasure discovering these great cows. Case in point: Linda Hendrix and her son, John, of Pacolet, South Carolina.\u00a0 In just two years they&#8217;ve grown to 15 females and an outstanding bull&#8230;.all originating here in Virginia.\u00a0 We were in neighboring North Carolina last weekend, and jumped at the chance to see how our charges were faring in their new home.\u00a0 They could not be doing better. Expect great things from Misty Ridge (Linda)\u00a0and Plum Branch\u00a0(John)\u00a0farms in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hendrix"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}