{"id":5727,"date":"2019-07-06T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T22:22:44","slug":"post-graduate-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/post-graduate-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Post graduate work&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As if grandson Church didn\u2019t have enough to do running the farm and studying for an advance degree in biology&#8230;he recently took a week to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/grahamschoolforcattlemen.com\/\">Frank B. Graham Cattleman\u2019s School<\/a> in Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n week-long program covered every aspect of herd fertility and calving, \nincluding artificial insemination, preg checking and delivering a calf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church,  pictured below with his classmates, is second from the right.\u00a0 He aced his final exam with a perfect score; only the fifth attendee to do that  in more than 20 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"Frank B. Graham Cattleman\u2019s School in Kansas\" class=\"wp-image-5734\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool-1024x766.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool-768x575.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CattlemanSchool.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long ago Church was selected by <a href=\"https:\/\/grassfedexchange.com\/\">The Grassfed Exchange<\/a> as one of 12  outstanding young cattlemen in the country.\u00a0 His goal is to become a  veterinarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the fourth generation on the farm and Grandpa is bursting his \u201cbib and tuckers\u201d! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if grandson Church didn\u2019t have enough to do running the farm and studying for an advance degree in biology&#8230;he recently took a week to attend the Frank B. Graham Cattleman\u2019s School in Kansas. The week-long program covered every aspect of herd fertility and calving, including artificial insemination, preg checking and delivering a calf. Church, pictured below with his classmates, is second from the right.\u00a0 He aced his final exam with a perfect score; only the fifth attendee to do that in more than 20 years! Not long ago Church was selected by The Grassfed Exchange as one of 12 outstanding young cattlemen in the country.\u00a0 His goal is to become a veterinarian. He is the fourth generation on the farm and Grandpa is bursting his \u201cbib and tuckers\u201d! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,134,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-calves","category-cows","category-david"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","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=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}