{"id":4167,"date":"2015-03-22T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2015-04-01T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T21:36:48","slug":"hooray-for-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/hooray-for-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for spring break&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.increasingly we plan our calendar around grandson Church&#8217;s school breaks.\u00a0 He can do anything Grandpa ever did&#8230;and better.\u00a0 He&#8217;s always loved the farm but now his physical ability is catching up with his enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>On this Spring Break he eschewed the usual Florida getaway of many college students&#8230;.even a vacation in Sicily&#8230;.to give us a hand at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 The chores including fence and gate repair, putting out minerals, seeding a recently reclaimed wooded area for pasture (it had grown over with scrub trees), and most important sorting and preg checking cows, then bringing in the bulls.<\/p>\n<p>It was a full week of work for a &#8220;vacation&#8221;.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve by no means listed everything.<\/p>\n<p>On our annual trip to England this summer, we&#8217;ve decided to take Church along.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time for him to meet our friends and partners in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be his partners soon, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150319_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4174 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150319_8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150319_8\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4173 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150318_3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150317_32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4172 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150317_32-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150317_3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.increasingly we plan our calendar around grandson Church&#8217;s school breaks.\u00a0 He can do anything Grandpa ever did&#8230;and better.\u00a0 He&#8217;s always loved the farm but now his physical ability is catching up with his enthusiasm. On this Spring Break he eschewed the usual Florida getaway of many college students&#8230;.even a vacation in Sicily&#8230;.to give us a hand at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 The chores including fence and gate repair, putting out minerals, seeding a recently reclaimed wooded area for pasture (it had grown over with scrub trees), and most important sorting and preg checking cows, then bringing in the bulls. It was a full week of work for a &#8220;vacation&#8221;.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve by no means listed everything. On our annual trip to England this summer, we&#8217;ve decided to take Church along.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time for him to meet our friends and partners in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be his partners soon, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}