{"id":513,"date":"2012-02-27T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:27:52","slug":"tie-breaking-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/tie-breaking-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie breaking vote&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220_271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-514\" title=\"20120220_27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220_271-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Ever since he calved two years ago, Blizzard here has been one of our leading candidates for Thistle Hill herd bull.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the son of Watson and what is probably our best cost and visitors generally singled him out.\u00a0 But we wavered between Blizzard (technically U180) and U2.\u00a0 Also a Watson son but by another damn.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the decision has been made for us.\u00a0 Michael Heller of Clagett Farm near Upper Marlboro has purchased Blizzard for his herd.\u00a0 It was a tough decision for him, too, partly because he wasn&#8217;t sure about Blizzard status as a horned bull.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s unlikely that there&#8217;ll be any horned calves since all Michael&#8217;s females are polled (without horns, that is).<\/p>\n<p>The parting is made only a little easier by the knowledge we have several of his brothers coming along&#8230;.mated to the Rotokawa great, 688!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since he calved two years ago, Blizzard here has been one of our leading candidates for Thistle Hill herd bull.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the son of Watson and what is probably our best cost and visitors generally singled him out.\u00a0 But we wavered between Blizzard (technically U180) and U2.\u00a0 Also a Watson son but by another damn. Now, the decision has been made for us.\u00a0 Michael Heller of Clagett Farm near Upper Marlboro has purchased Blizzard for his herd.\u00a0 It was a tough decision for him, too, partly because he wasn&#8217;t sure about Blizzard status as a horned bull.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s unlikely that there&#8217;ll be any horned calves since all Michael&#8217;s females are polled (without horns, that is). The parting is made only a little easier by the knowledge we have several of his brothers coming along&#8230;.mated to the Rotokawa great, 688!<\/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-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}