{"id":3149,"date":"2014-02-14T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:21:32","slug":"just-think-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/just-think-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Just think about spring&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140214_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3150\" alt=\"20140214_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140214_1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.and how great all this moisture will be for the pastures.\u00a0 But right now it is not a fun job bringing hay to cows in the far pastures.\u00a0 We thought they had enough but underestimated their appetites in really cold and wet weather when they use more to stay warm.<\/p>\n<p>By morning, the chores seemed much less\u00a0difficult in the bright sun.\u00a0 Farm manager Duane Ard plows the driveway so the oil truck can get in.\u00a0 The cows and the farmers both need energy.<\/p>\n<p>We had anywhere from a foot to just over two feet of snow in this latest storm.\u00a0 Fortunately the ice missed us, but that will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140214_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3151\" alt=\"20140214_9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140214_9-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>come with the daylight thawing and the re-freezing at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and how great all this moisture will be for the pastures.\u00a0 But right now it is not a fun job bringing hay to cows in the far pastures.\u00a0 We thought they had enough but underestimated their appetites in really cold and wet weather when they use more to stay warm. By morning, the chores seemed much less\u00a0difficult in the bright sun.\u00a0 Farm manager Duane Ard plows the driveway so the oil truck can get in.\u00a0 The cows and the farmers both need energy. We had anywhere from a foot to just over two feet of snow in this latest storm.\u00a0 Fortunately the ice missed us, but that will come with the daylight thawing and the re-freezing at night.<\/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-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}