{"id":2986,"date":"2016-08-29T19:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2016-08-29T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:00:40","slug":"oma-rapiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/oma-rapiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Oma Rapiti!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look what we found in the study this morning. How it got into the house is a complete mystery (surely not the cat door?), but its presence certainly explains why Maisie was so restless at 3am.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2989\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rapiti-2016-08-29-172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rapiti-2016-08-29-172.jpg\" alt=\"Trying to send a fax perhaps?\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rapiti-2016-08-29-172.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rapiti-2016-08-29-172-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rapiti-2016-08-29-172-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stu poses with several other ingredients.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s just a baby. Forbearing Husband has named it Stu (he has a bit of a warped sense of humor). I think he&#8217;s quietly hoping we might keep it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/no-puppies\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s a sucker for baby animals, remember<\/a>). And I&#8217;m not so sure I want it going back to the rabbit\u00a0friends and relations to report on the location of\u00a0an abundant veggie garden. We are considering\u00a0the possibilities. A very un-farmer-like pet? Or perhaps the start of a meat breeding programme? Hmmm. What would you do?<\/p>\n<p><em>For non-NZ readers confused by the title; &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WYLbf3KTfOI\" target=\"_blank\">Oma Rapiti&#8217;<\/a> is the Maori version of the nursery rhyme\u00a0&#8216;Run Rabbit&#8217;. Pretty much every\u00a0NZ child\u00a0learns it at kindy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what we found in the study this morning. How it got into the house is a complete mystery (surely not the cat door?), but its presence certainly explains why Maisie was so restless at 3am. I think it&#8217;s just&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/oma-rapiti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","category-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}