{"id":631,"date":"2012-04-05T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2012-04-05T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:29:52","slug":"just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-633\" title=\"ann\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ann-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;we like to look at pictures of cows, particularly our alumni&#8230;..or should it be alumnae?\u00a0 Ann Merryman, who has a beautiful farm near Sparks, Maryland, just sent us a picture of two heifers she purchased from Thistle Hill last fall.<\/p>\n<p>As we expected, they&#8217;ve thrived under Ann&#8217;s care and appear to be in perfect body condition for breeding.\u00a0 Both heifers are daughters of Rotokawa 93 and their sister was retained here at Thistle Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, we knew that Ann had been a horse trainer of\u00a0 note, but not until more recently had we discovered she had trained the horses in one of our favorite movies, <em>&#8220;Seabiscuit&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;we like to look at pictures of cows, particularly our alumni&#8230;..or should it be alumnae?\u00a0 Ann Merryman, who has a beautiful farm near Sparks, Maryland, just sent us a picture of two heifers she purchased from Thistle Hill last fall. As we expected, they&#8217;ve thrived under Ann&#8217;s care and appear to be in perfect body condition for breeding.\u00a0 Both heifers are daughters of Rotokawa 93 and their sister was retained here at Thistle Hill. Incidentally, we knew that Ann had been a horse trainer of\u00a0 note, but not until more recently had we discovered she had trained the horses in one of our favorite movies, &#8220;Seabiscuit&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}