{"id":4256,"date":"2015-05-05T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2015-05-05T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:54:19","slug":"by-the-light-of-a-smart-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/by-the-light-of-a-smart-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"By the light of a smart phone&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we were working after dark last night and the last job was moving our herd bull, <em>Jackpot<\/em>, from his herd and back to the bull pasture.\u00a0 We also wanted to get tail hairs to confirm a calf&#8217;s parentage.\u00a0 The whole job was done smoothly, with only Duane Ard&#8217;s smart phone for a light. (and we only used that to confirm we&#8217;d gotten a good sample in the dark)<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many bulls, not even Devon, that I would be comfortable pushing around in the dark.\u00a0 But they don&#8217;t come any better behaved than <em>Jackpot<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Duane also grabbed a quick picture with that smart phone of a Thistle Hill evening sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150504_192748.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150504_192748.jpg\" alt=\"20150504_192748\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150504_192748.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150504_192748-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we were working after dark last night and the last job was moving our herd bull, Jackpot, from his herd and back to the bull pasture.\u00a0 We also wanted to get tail hairs to confirm a calf&#8217;s parentage.\u00a0 The whole job was done smoothly, with only Duane Ard&#8217;s smart phone for a light. (and we only used that to confirm we&#8217;d gotten a good sample in the dark) There aren&#8217;t many bulls, not even Devon, that I would be comfortable pushing around in the dark.\u00a0 But they don&#8217;t come any better behaved than Jackpot! Duane also grabbed a quick picture with that smart phone of a Thistle Hill evening sky.<\/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-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","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=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}