{"id":884,"date":"2015-12-07T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-12-07T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:54:02","slug":"patience-rewarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/patience-rewarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Rewarded"},"content":{"rendered":"

It worked!<\/a>\u00a0There is one less rat under the\u00a0chicken house, and this old girl is the reason. See, it’s true, good things do run into the mouths of dogs\u00a0who wait.<\/p>\n

\"Victory<\/a>

Quietly triumphant<\/p><\/div>\n

I was going to\u00a0post a\u00a0photo of the dead rat, but on reflection thought you might\u00a0prefer a\u00a0portrait of one of the\u00a0recent batch of\u00a0chicken babies. Cute chicky vs chewed\u00a0rat? Mmmm, let’s just say it behoves one to\u00a0uphold a certain aesthetic standard.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>

We call her Solo — she’s five weeks old and practicing roosting<\/p><\/div>\n

To date five\u00a0rats have been caught in the rat trap too. Don’t tell Ella though, we like to preserve\u00a0her fantasy that\u00a0she’s the only thing standing<\/del>\u00a0lying between us and the rat king.<\/p>\n

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It worked!\u00a0There is one less rat under the\u00a0chicken house, and this old girl is the reason. See, it’s true, good things do run into the mouths of dogs\u00a0who wait. I was going to\u00a0post a\u00a0photo of the dead rat, but on… Continue Reading →<\/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":[8,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-dogs","category-rats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}