{"id":587,"date":"2012-03-27T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2012-03-27T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T10:56:29","slug":"morning-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/morning-chores\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning chores&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-588\" title=\"20120326_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s the twice-a-day routine.\u00a0 <em>Pokey<\/em> sets out with Wooz to feed the pigs and check on the heifers.\u00a0 (They share a pasture)\u00a0 (I mean the pigs and heifers; not Wooz and <em>Pokey<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve not had a dog, certainly not a puppy, who is content simply trotting alongside, watching what needs to be done.\u00a0 She won&#8217;t be distracted by our older dog racing off to investigate something or even a nearby cat or squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we strung a lot of electric wire to begin mob grazing.\u00a0 There was a cold wind, and a lot of walking for a little dog, but she gamely trotted along for about an hour.\u00a0 And that was after her\u00a0regular afternoon chores.<\/p>\n<p>As advertised, <em>Pokey<\/em> is definitely a &#8220;work dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the twice-a-day routine.\u00a0 Pokey sets out with Wooz to feed the pigs and check on the heifers.\u00a0 (They share a pasture)\u00a0 (I mean the pigs and heifers; not Wooz and Pokey.) We&#8217;ve not had a dog, certainly not a puppy, who is content simply trotting alongside, watching what needs to be done.\u00a0 She won&#8217;t be distracted by our older dog racing off to investigate something or even a nearby cat or squirrel. Yesterday we strung a lot of electric wire to begin mob grazing.\u00a0 There was a cold wind, and a lot of walking for a little dog, but she gamely trotted along for about an hour.\u00a0 And that was after her\u00a0regular afternoon chores. As advertised, Pokey is definitely a &#8220;work dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pocahontas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}