{"id":6659,"date":"2021-01-20T01:54:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:26:00","slug":"this-just-in-and-im-bursting-with-grandfatherly-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/this-just-in-and-im-bursting-with-grandfatherly-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in…and I\u2019m bursting with grandfatherly pride…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u2026Church had just been accepted into the veterinary school at Cornell University!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past two years, he\u2019s been running Thistle Hill Farm and its herd of purebred Devon. All the while he\u2019s pursed a graduate degree in biology at George Mason University. Before that he was graduated from Denison University in Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that wasn\u2019t enough, Church also wrangled a few pigs and worked for our local vet at Rose Hill veterinary service. And somehow he\u2019s managed the time to help his uncle at Tolsons Appliance, a longtime family store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church\u2019s achievements more than justify his grandmother\u2019s belief in him. She was always his biggest booster! And a key moment in his young career was spending a summer working at Jim Gerrish\u2019s ranch in Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell\u2019s vet school\u2026for those outside farming\u2026is one of the top, if not THE top, veterinary colleges in the country. More than 3,000 people vie every year for just 100 openings. It has been likened to the Harvard Medical School for physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long ago Church was named one of the Outstanding Young Cattlemen in the entire nation. This admission to Cornell eclipses everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I also don\u2019t want to forget to congratulate mom and dad who have sweated out this every step of the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026Church had just been accepted into the veterinary school at Cornell University! For the past two years, he\u2019s been running Thistle Hill Farm and its herd of purebred Devon. All the while he\u2019s pursed a graduate degree in biology at George Mason University. Before that he was graduated from Denison University in Ohio. If that wasn\u2019t enough, Church also wrangled a few pigs and worked for our local vet at Rose Hill veterinary service. And somehow he\u2019s managed the time to help his uncle at Tolsons Appliance, a longtime family store. Church\u2019s achievements more than justify his grandmother\u2019s belief in him. She was always his biggest booster! And a key moment in his young career was spending a summer working at Jim Gerrish\u2019s ranch in Idaho. Cornell\u2019s vet school\u2026for those outside farming\u2026is one of the top, if not THE top, veterinary colleges in the country. More than 3,000 people vie every year for just 100 openings. It has been likened to the Harvard Medical School for physicians. Not long ago Church was named one of the Outstanding Young Cattlemen in the entire nation. This admission to Cornell eclipses everything! And I also don\u2019t want to forget to congratulate mom and dad who have sweated out this every step of the way! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,13,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-david","category-thistle-hill-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}