{"id":3037,"date":"2016-09-11T19:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2016-09-11T22:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:39:34","slug":"calf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/calf-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Calf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/new-digs\/\" target=\"_blank\">my friend Amy-next-door<\/a>, and of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/spring-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">spring lambs<\/a>, here is Amy with her &#8216;Calf Club&#8217; lamb &#8216;Zebie&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3038\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lamb-Zebie-2016-09-01-181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lamb-Zebie-2016-09-01-181.jpg\" alt=\"Cute Lamb\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lamb-Zebie-2016-09-01-181.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lamb-Zebie-2016-09-01-181-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zebie is a girl lamb, so named because she is black and white.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calf Club, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/property\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=8&amp;objectid=10344806\" target=\"_blank\">Ag Day<\/a>, is an annual spring event at rural NZ schools. Each\u00a0student adopts a new-born calf, lamb, or goat and takes on\u00a0the\u00a0responsibility of\u00a0raising and training it. On calf club day the animals go to school and kids show how\u00a0well\u00a0their &#8216;calf&#8217; can be led with a halter and rope, come when it is\u00a0called, and maybe even do a trick or two.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like fun, and judging by the amount of time Amy is putting into the project (she was up at 5 this morning she tells me) I bet Team\u00a0Amy&#8211;Zebie will do great.<\/p>\n<p><em>Okay, I confess, I really had\u00a0absolutely\u00a0nothing interesting to say here.\u00a0This whole post is\u00a0just a thin excuse for showing you\u00a0a cute lamb picture. Still who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wouldn&#8217;t<\/span>\u00a0want to see a cute lamb picture? You can vote for or\u00a0against cute lamb pics in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of\u00a0my friend Amy-next-door, and of spring lambs, here is Amy with her &#8216;Calf Club&#8217; lamb &#8216;Zebie&#8217;. Calf Club, also known as Ag Day, is an annual spring event at rural NZ schools. Each\u00a0student adopts a new-born calf, lamb, or&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/calf-club\/\" 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":[50,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","category-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","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=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}