{"id":5597,"date":"2019-03-07T02:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2019-03-07T02:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:49:50","slug":"so-jim-gerrish-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/so-jim-gerrish-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"So Jim Gerrish knows&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026we practice what he preaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Herd\" class=\"wp-image-5601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ThistlehillFarmHerd.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The  experts say the cows get about two-thirds of the best hay.\u00a0 The rest is  not wasted but trampled in creating organic matter and feeding the  microbes. Add in the fertilizing the cows do as they roam around and our  fertilizer bill is precisely \u201czero\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do need a minimum application of lime though&#8230;if the fields ever dry out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026we practice what he preaches. The experts say the cows get about two-thirds of the best hay.\u00a0 The rest is not wasted but trampled in creating organic matter and feeding the microbes. Add in the fertilizing the cows do as they roam around and our fertilizer bill is precisely \u201czero\u201d. We do need a minimum application of lime though&#8230;if the fields ever dry out. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-david","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}