{"id":6954,"date":"2021-09-12T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2021-09-12T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:21:47","slug":"ladies-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/ladies-in-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies in waiting\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Hill Farm - Ladies in waiting...\" class=\"wp-image-6955\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ladies.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Photo by Carolyn Matthews<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026have been moved to the pasture closest to the house where we can keep an eye on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s interesting that none of the cows in this picture is actually grazing\u2026they\u2019ve all adopted that far-off stare of cows waiting for birth.&nbsp; That event begins in just a few days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping an eye on them has suddenly taken on added meaning.&nbsp; Two nearby farms have been struck by cattle rustlers and we\u2019ve all gone on alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the number of expert marksmen on these farms, the rustlers are playing a dangerous game.&nbsp; Son Church, while standing in front of our house, once hit a fox 300 yards away running across this very pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026have been moved to the pasture closest to the house where we can keep an eye on them. It\u2019s interesting that none of the cows in this picture is actually grazing\u2026they\u2019ve all adopted that far-off stare of cows waiting for birth.&nbsp; That event begins in just a few days! Keeping an eye on them has suddenly taken on added meaning.&nbsp; Two nearby farms have been struck by cattle rustlers and we\u2019ve all gone on alert. With the number of expert marksmen on these farms, the rustlers are playing a dangerous game.&nbsp; Son Church, while standing in front of our house, once hit a fox 300 yards away running across this very pasture. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,134,19,13,170,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-calves","category-cows","category-david","category-grass","category-thistle-hill-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6957,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}