{"id":3655,"date":"2014-08-09T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2014-08-10T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:54:22","slug":"learn-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/learn-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do they learn these things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140807_3678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140807_3678-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140807_367\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.the other day, while taking pictures of an English bull for the Red Devon USA newsletter, I turned the camera on this young &#8220;American&#8221; bull.\u00a0 He immediately snapped to and assumed &#8220;the position&#8221;.\u00a0 The minute I moved on, he returned to grazing.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s eight months old. From the moment he was born, we felt we had another herd bull&#8230;and he&#8217;s always acted like the lord of the pasture.\u00a0 Stands just apart from the herd, calls for his mother when he wants milk and she come over immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s THF 126&#8230;&#8221;Augustine&#8221;&#8230;you may call him &#8220;Gus&#8221;!\u00a0 He&#8217;s out of R2, who has produced many of our very best animals.\u00a0 Sire is &#8220;THF Reality&#8221;&#8230;with a lot of Rotokawa 667 on both sides&#8230; as well as Lakota H89 on the dan&#8217;s side, who also has a lot of fans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought bull calves were kinda funny&#8230;.parodies of the human version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the other day, while taking pictures of an English bull for the Red Devon USA newsletter, I turned the camera on this young &#8220;American&#8221; bull.\u00a0 He immediately snapped to and assumed &#8220;the position&#8221;.\u00a0 The minute I moved on, he returned to grazing. He&#8217;s eight months old. From the moment he was born, we felt we had another herd bull&#8230;and he&#8217;s always acted like the lord of the pasture.\u00a0 Stands just apart from the herd, calls for his mother when he wants milk and she come over immediately. He&#8217;s THF 126&#8230;&#8221;Augustine&#8221;&#8230;you may call him &#8220;Gus&#8221;!\u00a0 He&#8217;s out of R2, who has produced many of our very best animals.\u00a0 Sire is &#8220;THF Reality&#8221;&#8230;with a lot of Rotokawa 667 on both sides&#8230; as well as Lakota H89 on the dan&#8217;s side, who also has a lot of fans. I&#8217;ve always thought bull calves were kinda funny&#8230;.parodies of the human version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,70,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-r2","category-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}