{"id":3614,"date":"2014-08-04T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:47:39","slug":"second-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/second-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Second stop&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.on our summer vacation Devon tour:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-24-00.28.03-e1406583793155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-24-00.28.03-e1406583793155-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-24 00.28.03\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Don and Heather Minto&#8217;s <em>Watson Farm<\/em> on an island in the middle of Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n<p>We met Don at the very first North American Devon organizational meeting&#8230;.worked together on the board&#8230;and planned NADA&#8217;s second convention at his Rhode Island farm.\u00a0 No one has done more for Devon than he and Heather&#8230;and our friendship has survived the association wars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-11-24-00.08.49-2-e1407166791263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-11-24-00.08.49-2-e1407166791263-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-24 00.08.49 (2)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-11-24-00.30.59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-11-24-00.30.59-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-24 00.30.59\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-24-00.17.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-24-00.17.07-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-24 00.17.07\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watson Farms current herd bull is <em>R46<\/em>&#8230;a line bred <em>Rotokawa 93<\/em> sire out of a <em>688<\/em> daughter.\u00a0 There are Watson Farm bulls in a number of herds and we credit one&#8230;<em>R58<\/em>&#8230;with putting us on the road to success.\u00a0 <em>R46<\/em> sired 33 calves for the Mintos last year and they&#8217;re all in the registry.\u00a0 Don, like David, is fortunate to have\u00a0a partner who fully shares the thinking, planning and working!<\/p>\n<p>Next stop:\u00a0 keeping the <em>Rotokawa<\/em> flame alive in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-11-24-00.30.59.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.on our summer vacation Devon tour:\u00a0 Don and Heather Minto&#8217;s Watson Farm on an island in the middle of Narragansett Bay. We met Don at the very first North American Devon organizational meeting&#8230;.worked together on the board&#8230;and planned NADA&#8217;s second convention at his Rhode Island farm.\u00a0 No one has done more for Devon than he and Heather&#8230;and our friendship has survived the association wars! Watson Farms current herd bull is R46&#8230;a line bred Rotokawa 93 sire out of a 688 daughter.\u00a0 There are Watson Farm bulls in a number of herds and we credit one&#8230;R58&#8230;with putting us on the road to success.\u00a0 R46 sired 33 calves for the Mintos last year and they&#8217;re all in the registry.\u00a0 Don, like David, is fortunate to have\u00a0a partner who fully shares the thinking, planning and working! Next stop:\u00a0 keeping the Rotokawa flame alive in Massachusetts. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,99,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-minto","category-north-american-devon-association"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}