{"id":456,"date":"2014-04-18T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2014-04-18T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:30:30","slug":"spring-finally-arrives-at-dennis-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Spring Finally Arrives at Dennis Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><span style=\"color: #993300; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">Spring is always eagerly anticipated at Dennis Farms, but never more so than this year.\u00a0 This winter was easily the most brutal we can remember in the 30+ years Janie and I have lived in the area.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">As always, Spring brings new life to the farm. \u00a0The beautiful new grass and new animals coincide beautifully with the new life Christ gives us at Easter.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sheep-on-Grass-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-457\" alt=\"Spring Lambs on the Way\" src=\"\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sheep-on-Grass-2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sheep-on-Grass-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sheep-on-Grass-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sheep-on-Grass-2-200x90.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">We moved our pregnant ewes to fresh grass close to the house\u00a0prior to lambing.\u00a0 This way we can almost walk out the front door to check on them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Preg-Pigs-on-Grass-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" alt=\"Expectant Mothers\" src=\"\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Preg-Pigs-on-Grass-2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Preg-Pigs-on-Grass-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Preg-Pigs-on-Grass-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Preg-Pigs-on-Grass-2-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">Two of our sows, Penny and Suzy, both very pregnant were moved to their farrowing paddock the day this photo was taken.\u00a0 Two days later, both had their babies.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">Greg &amp; Janie<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spring is always eagerly anticipated at Dennis Farms, but never more so than this year.\u00a0 This winter was easily the most brutal we can remember in the 30+ years Janie and I have lived in the area. As always, Spring brings new life to the farm. \u00a0The beautiful new grass and new animals coincide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[19,18,16,11,17,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}