{"id":4468,"date":"2015-10-01T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2015-10-02T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:02:59","slug":"by-way-of-explanation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/by-way-of-explanation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"By way of explanation&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we haven&#8217;t been able to enjoy our fall pastures much&#8230;.or update this blog&#8230;.for quite a while.\u00a0 So below is\u00a0a recent picture by our manager, Duane Ard, and now the explanation.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Wooz fell on our gravel road and broke her hip.\u00a0 A routine x-ray then revealed a small mass in her lung.\u00a0 So our hours have been filled with frequent trips to the University of Virginia hospital (90 minutes away), where Wooz first underwent a complete hip replacement, then a Gamma knife treatment to clear up several brain lesions and finally the start of chemo for her lung.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a long road to go, but she is feeling fine, walking well with only occasional support from a cane, and beginning to climb stairs.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also back in full force, supervising operations (me)&#8230;.though from our 4-runner and not the Gator.\u00a0 And we thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, having just put up electric fencing for the first time in a month, it&#8217;s time to resume this blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-01-08.56.36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-01-08.56.36.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-01 08.56.36\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-01-08.56.36.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-01-08.56.36-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we haven&#8217;t been able to enjoy our fall pastures much&#8230;.or update this blog&#8230;.for quite a while.\u00a0 So below is\u00a0a recent picture by our manager, Duane Ard, and now the explanation. A month ago, Wooz fell on our gravel road and broke her hip.\u00a0 A routine x-ray then revealed a small mass in her lung.\u00a0 So our hours have been filled with frequent trips to the University of Virginia hospital (90 minutes away), where Wooz first underwent a complete hip replacement, then a Gamma knife treatment to clear up several brain lesions and finally the start of chemo for her lung. There&#8217;s still a long road to go, but she is feeling fine, walking well with only occasional support from a cane, and beginning to climb stairs.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also back in full force, supervising operations (me)&#8230;.though from our 4-runner and not the Gator.\u00a0 And we thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes. Now, having just put up electric fencing for the first time in a month, it&#8217;s time to resume this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture","category-wooz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","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=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}