{"id":436,"date":"2012-02-04T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-02-04T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:47:17","slug":"new-to-the-heifer-pasture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/new-to-the-heifer-pasture\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the heifer pasture&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120204_26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-437\" title=\"20120204_26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120204_26-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.and we guess it&#8217;s because all four of our new piglets are female.\u00a0 They continue to tour but in a somewhat smaller circle and are now right at home with our yearling heifers.\u00a0 They quickly learned to stay clear of the hind legs and are\u00a0quite bold&#8230;.as long as the cows are in front.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve also made friends with our guard donkey, Jack, and they even nuzzle each other from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter how far they roam, the piglets are able to hear the sound of our Gator when we crank it up back at the house.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re waiting for dinner in their pen when we drive up.\u00a0 Well, three of them are.\u00a0 They take the direct route through the intervening wire fences. One is already too big for that, and waits for us at the gate&#8230;.alternating between panic and crying!\u00a0 Yes, pigs cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and we guess it&#8217;s because all four of our new piglets are female.\u00a0 They continue to tour but in a somewhat smaller circle and are now right at home with our yearling heifers.\u00a0 They quickly learned to stay clear of the hind legs and are\u00a0quite bold&#8230;.as long as the cows are in front.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve also made friends with our guard donkey, Jack, and they even nuzzle each other from time to time. But no matter how far they roam, the piglets are able to hear the sound of our Gator when we crank it up back at the house.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re waiting for dinner in their pen when we drive up.\u00a0 Well, three of them are.\u00a0 They take the direct route through the intervening wire fences. One is already too big for that, and waits for us at the gate&#8230;.alternating between panic and crying!\u00a0 Yes, pigs cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigs-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}