{"id":650,"date":"2012-04-11T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:40:53","slug":"blizzard-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/blizzard-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard in Maryland&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-651\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;not that kind.\u00a0 This kind.<\/p>\n<p>Our young bull, <em>THF Blizzard W180<\/em>, was delivered to Claggett Farm near Upper Marlboro, Maryland yesterday.\u00a0 His new owner, Michael Heller, is getting one of the nicest bulls we&#8217;ve raised here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 <em>Blizzard<\/em> was off the trailer and calling his new herd before we could get our camera ready.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is the manager of the farm, which is owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.\u00a0 A nice coincidence since Thistle Hill a few years back won an award for its protection of streams which are a part of the Chesapeake basin.<\/p>\n<p>The farm serves as an educational laboratory not only for area farmers but for school children and we&#8217;re proud to have one of our own involved in its good work.\u00a0 Michael is also very involved in CASA, the Chesapeake Association for Sustainable Agriculture.\u00a0 So <em>Blizzard,<\/em> indeed, is in good company.\u00a0 Made it a lot easier for Wooz to see him go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not that kind.\u00a0 This kind. Our young bull, THF Blizzard W180, was delivered to Claggett Farm near Upper Marlboro, Maryland yesterday.\u00a0 His new owner, Michael Heller, is getting one of the nicest bulls we&#8217;ve raised here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 Blizzard was off the trailer and calling his new herd before we could get our camera ready. Michael is the manager of the farm, which is owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.\u00a0 A nice coincidence since Thistle Hill a few years back won an award for its protection of streams which are a part of the Chesapeake basin. The farm serves as an educational laboratory not only for area farmers but for school children and we&#8217;re proud to have one of our own involved in its good work.\u00a0 Michael is also very involved in CASA, the Chesapeake Association for Sustainable Agriculture.\u00a0 So Blizzard, indeed, is in good company.\u00a0 Made it a lot easier for Wooz to see him go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}