{"id":4295,"date":"2015-05-19T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:20:18","slug":"out-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/out-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of season&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the experts say this is the perfect<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150518_173346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150518_173346-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150518_173346\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0time of year to calve, but we prefer fall calving at Thistle Hill to avoid the stress of Virginia&#8217;s hot summers.\u00a0 To prove the point, this little guy arrived just about noon when it was hotter in our area than anywhere in the country!<\/p>\n<p>Still the pair handled it effortlessly.\u00a0 Mom is a very young and quite small cow and this is her second calf.\u00a0 The young bull, <em>C163<\/em>, was sired by <em>TDA Highwayman<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>U2a<\/em> gave no sign she was that close to calving when Wooz checked her in the morning.\u00a0 A couple of hours later:\u00a0 there we was!<\/p>\n<p>We like it that way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Duane Ard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the experts say this is the perfect\u00a0time of year to calve, but we prefer fall calving at Thistle Hill to avoid the stress of Virginia&#8217;s hot summers.\u00a0 To prove the point, this little guy arrived just about noon when it was hotter in our area than anywhere in the country! Still the pair handled it effortlessly.\u00a0 Mom is a very young and quite small cow and this is her second calf.\u00a0 The young bull, C163, was sired by TDA Highwayman.\u00a0 U2a gave no sign she was that close to calving when Wooz checked her in the morning.\u00a0 A couple of hours later:\u00a0 there we was! We like it that way. Photo by 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-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}