{"id":6010,"date":"2019-12-09T01:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:58:57","slug":"send-me-in-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/send-me-in-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Send me in coach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;our pure traditional English bull Essington is ready for his assignment as this year\u2019s cover bull for the main herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"Essington\" class=\"wp-image-6012\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington-1024x787.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington-768x590.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington-1536x1180.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Essington.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em> Photo by Church Humphreys<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve AI-ed 26 of 40 cows and it will be up to Essington to cover the rest and any of the AI-s that didn\u2019t take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s  the first time we\u2019ve tested him. His dam was Brian Drake\u2019s Buttercup by  Shiamala Comer\u2019s Millennium Falcon&#8230;both renowned English breeders who  insisted on traditional values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;our pure traditional English bull Essington is ready for his assignment as this year\u2019s cover bull for the main herd. We\u2019ve AI-ed 26 of 40 cows and it will be up to Essington to cover the rest and any of the AI-s that didn\u2019t take. It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve tested him. His dam was Brian Drake\u2019s Buttercup by Shiamala Comer\u2019s Millennium Falcon&#8230;both renowned English breeders who insisted on traditional values. 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls","category-calves","category-cows","category-david"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","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=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6016,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}