{"id":5592,"date":"2019-03-03T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:59:23","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nThe oldest cow in our herd at 16, M180, greeted us with a bull calf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"The oldest cow in our herd at 16, M180, greeted us with a bull calf.\n\n(Keith pic surprise full but cropped a little top and bottom)\n\nBaby is an 82 pound bull calf by an English bull, TDA Highwayman. M180 was purchased from Lakota ranch years ago and has produced a string of nice calves.\n\nShe preg checked open and gave no sign she was expecting. In fact, she had been at the top of the list in our discussion of potential culls. Back to the drawing board.\n\nAnd did you notice the new green grass now that the snow has melted?\" class=\"wp-image-5594\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise-1024x799.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise-768x600.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Surprise.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Baby is an 82 pound bull calf by an English bull, TDA Highwayman. M180 was purchased from Lakota ranch years ago and has produced a string of nice calves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She preg checked open and gave no sign she was expecting. In fact, she had been at the top of the list in our discussion of potential culls. Back to the  drawing board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And did you notice the new green grass now that the snow has melted? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest cow in our herd at 16, M180, greeted us with a bull calf. Baby is an 82 pound bull calf by an English bull, TDA Highwayman. M180 was purchased from Lakota ranch years ago and has produced a string of nice calves. She preg checked open and gave no sign she was expecting. In fact, she had been at the top of the list in our discussion of potential culls. Back to the drawing board. And did you notice the new green grass now that the snow has melted? David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,134,19,13,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls","category-calves","category-cows","category-david","category-highwayman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}