{"id":492,"date":"2015-09-03T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T22:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T22:13:45","slug":"dennis-farms-lawnmowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Farms Lawnmowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sheep-in-Yard-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-493\" src=\"\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sheep-in-Yard-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep in Yard (2)\" width=\"1004\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sheep-in-Yard-2.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sheep-in-Yard-2-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sheep-in-Yard-2-196x200.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #150600; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dennis Farms&#8217; Lawnmowers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #150600; font-family: Arial;\">An every summer ritual at Dennis Farms is Janie complaining that I spend far too much time taking care of the pastures and not near enough time taking care of the yard.\u00a0 The complaining escalates in\u00a0 direct relationship to the length of the grass.\u00a0 By the time the grass in the yard is a foot high, my ears are really getting burned.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #150600; font-family: Arial;\">This year, Janie took matters into her own hands.\u00a0 When the grass had gotten out of control (in Janie&#8217;s mind), she told me, &#8220;I&#8217;ve had it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m putting some sheep in the yard and letting them eat it down.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #150600; font-family: Arial;\">Well, I guess it must be working.\u00a0 This picture of the &#8220;lawnmowers&#8221; chewing their morning cud is the 3rd time this summer the yard has been mowed.\u00a0 That&#8217;s 2 more times than it usually gets mowed.\u00a0 Of course, tippy-toeing around the deposits the sheep leave behind can be aggravating, but a good rain usually takes care of that.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dennis Farms&#8217; Lawnmowers An every summer ritual at Dennis Farms is Janie complaining that I spend far too much time taking care of the pastures and not near enough time taking care of the yard.\u00a0 The complaining escalates in\u00a0 direct relationship to the length of the grass.\u00a0 By the time the grass in the yard [&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":[8,28,29,24,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}