{"id":5238,"date":"2018-09-02T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2018-09-22T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:50:55","slug":"its-not-just-the-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/its-not-just-the-english\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just the English&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that excites us at Thistle Hill. We have always been big fans of Rotokawa\u2019s Ken McDowall and hosted him many times. Ken has been consulted often about our breeding decisions.<\/p>\n<p>One day on one his visits he looked at a new bull calf and said, \u201cDavid you\u2019ve hit the jackpot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name stuck&#8230;and now here is <em>Jackpot\u2019s<\/em> son, <em>THF Guardian<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5240 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Jackpot\u2019s son, THF Guardian.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jackpot\u2019s son, THF Guardian.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guardian.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em>Guardian<\/em> not only displays <em>Jackpot<\/em> in his pedigree but Thistle Hill\u2019s \u201c2\u201d Rotokawa line, producers of more top animals than any other.<\/p>\n<p>Almost needless to say it all starts with <em>Rotokawa 243<\/em>, who Ken considers his top achievement.<\/p>\n<p>As always you\u2019re invited to come see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that excites us at Thistle Hill. We have always been big fans of Rotokawa\u2019s Ken McDowall and hosted him many times. Ken has been consulted often about our breeding decisions. One day on one his visits he looked at a new bull calf and said, \u201cDavid you\u2019ve hit the jackpot.\u201d The name stuck&#8230;and now here is Jackpot\u2019s son, THF Guardian. Guardian not only displays Jackpot in his pedigree but Thistle Hill\u2019s \u201c2\u201d Rotokawa line, producers of more top animals than any other. Almost needless to say it all starts with Rotokawa 243, who Ken considers his top achievement. As always you\u2019re invited to come see for yourself. David<\/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-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","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=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}