{"id":17,"date":"2004-07-14T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-05-29T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T08:49:42","slug":"horses-and-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/14\/horses-and-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought cows were stupid! If you&#8217;ve ever looked at a cattle grid, you&#8217;d have noticed that any animal with an ounce of brain should be able to work out how to get round them&#8230; I used to have hours of fun watch the herd of cows near my old house attempting to circumvent the cattle grid. Every now and then one of them gets close, but very few ever work it out and escape.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, driving home tonight through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewforest.co.uk\/\">New Forest<\/a> I was thinking about the New Forest Ponies. For those of you who know nothing about the Forest, ponies run wild throughout it. It occurs to me that the Forest is a large place and that Animals that have the freedom to roam can eat and sleep anywhere they want. So, why do they all eat at the side of the roads or sleep in the middle of them? All that grassland and they prefer the tarmac. With the deer they always keep well away, the only problem with them is when the cross the road in their own inevitable style. So I officially put horses in the same stupid category as cows!<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/thehappypooch.com\/breeds-health\/\"><font color=\"#555555\">http:\/\/thehappypooch.com\/breeds-health\/<\/font><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought cows were stupid! If you&#8217;ve ever looked at a cattle grid, you&#8217;d have noticed that any animal with an ounce of brain should be able to work out how to get round them&#8230; I used to have hours of fun watch the herd of cows near my old house attempting to circumvent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/14\/horses-and-cows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horses and Cows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}