{"id":5625,"date":"2019-04-20T22:27:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T02:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2019-04-20T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T02:27:42","slug":"that-didnt-take-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/that-didnt-take-long\/","title":{"rendered":"That didn\u2019t take long&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Grass.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Grass-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Hill Farm Grass\" class=\"wp-image-5627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Grass-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Grass-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Grass.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What a difference five days makes. Grass is now 8 to 10 inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll\n have to move fast or risk falling impossibly behind. Grandson Church is\n erecting the stakes for one-acre paddocks and the main herd of 30 cows \nand their new calves will have an acre a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look carefully and you\u2019ll see a healthy stand of clover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dirt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dirt-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm dirt\" class=\"wp-image-5629\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dirt-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dirt-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dirt.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Out\n of curiosity Church turned over a shovel of dirt. Look carefully near \nthe top and left of the picture and you\u2019ll see earthworms. I count five \nin less than a square foot. Again note the clover&#8230;and the organic \nmatter. Enlarge all our blog pictures by simply tapping on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthy soil makes for healthy cows and healthy beef!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference five days makes. Grass is now 8 to 10 inches. We\u2019ll have to move fast or risk falling impossibly behind. Grandson Church is erecting the stakes for one-acre paddocks and the main herd of 30 cows and their new calves will have an acre a day. Look carefully and you\u2019ll see a healthy stand of clover. Out of curiosity Church turned over a shovel of dirt. Look carefully near the top and left of the picture and you\u2019ll see earthworms. I count five in less than a square foot. Again note the clover&#8230;and the organic matter. Enlarge all our blog pictures by simply tapping on them. Healthy soil makes for healthy cows and healthy beef! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}