{"id":3237,"date":"2014-03-12T17:59:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2014-03-13T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:44:21","slug":"green-grass-grew-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/green-grass-grew-around\/","title":{"rendered":"And the green grass grew all around&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140312_112141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3238\" title=\"A126\" alt=\"A126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140312_112141.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140312_112141.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140312_112141-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.NOT!\u00a0 But our cows, including 180, are waiting patiently.\u00a0 And actually, if you look carefully, you can see some tinges of green beginning to pop out.<\/p>\n<p>And if look carefully, you&#8217;ll see that bull calf in the background.\u00a0 We&#8217;re pretty excited about him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s <em>A126<\/em>, the result of a mating that occurred when we brought back a Thistle Hill alumni, whose mother had been a double bred <em>Rotokawa 667<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>A126&#8217;s<\/em> dam was also the mother of one of our herd bulls.\u00a0 She&#8217;s been quite a performer for us.\u00a0 Another of her offspring is the cow on the right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by our farm manager, Duane Ard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.NOT!\u00a0 But our cows, including 180, are waiting patiently.\u00a0 And actually, if you look carefully, you can see some tinges of green beginning to pop out. And if look carefully, you&#8217;ll see that bull calf in the background.\u00a0 We&#8217;re pretty excited about him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s A126, the result of a mating that occurred when we brought back a Thistle Hill alumni, whose mother had been a double bred Rotokawa 667. A126&#8217;s dam was also the mother of one of our herd bulls.\u00a0 She&#8217;s been quite a performer for us.\u00a0 Another of her offspring is the cow on the right. Photo by our farm manager, Duane Ard.<\/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-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}