{"id":1513,"date":"2017-04-06T02:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2017-04-06T02:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:55:34","slug":"tough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/tough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are tougher than others. \u00a0I like to think that I am. \u00a0But, there are times, when I am aware that I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want to complain about it being wet and muddy around paradise. \u00a0But, wet, cold, kind-of-windy and muddy are not conducive to the goat industry. \u00a0Which is exactly the way it has been around here.<\/p>\n<p>We had a scheduled stop from some goat hunters from the Eastern seaboard. \u00a0The weather wasn&#8217;t right for the looking. \u00a0It was raining, cold and windier than one would want it to be. \u00a0Of course, our goats can stay dry but it isn&#8217;t optimum for looking at stock.<\/p>\n<p>I do admire a guy that can cross rivulets and wade through some mud to look at livestock. Even in ostrich boots. \u00a0Some never complained. \u00a0Others just wondered if the wind always blows like this. \u00a0Nah\u2026this ain&#8217;t bad. \u00a0I enjoy it when the tough get going. \u00a0If you like an animal when the weather ain&#8217;t right, they almost always get way better looking in the sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Another crew showed up and we needed to go back through the goats. \u00a0As we did, I noticed that somebody was missing. \u00a0When I got done, I headed into the house. \u00a0I asked our youngest son, &#8220;Dude, where did you go?&#8221; \u00a0 He replied, &#8220;I was good the first time through. \u00a0But, I had no desire to look at the same goats twice in this crap. \u00a0I figured if you needed me, I&#8217;d hear about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed all of the visitors, all of the calls and most of the texts regarding the upcoming buck sale on oklahomashowgoats.com. \u00a0Somebody will be around all weekend if you want to look. \u00a0Just give us a holler and we will make it work. \u00a0Thank you and have a wonderful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are tougher than others. \u00a0I like to think that I am. \u00a0But, there are times, when I am aware that I&#8217;m not. I do not want to complain about it being wet and muddy around paradise. \u00a0But, wet, cold, kind-of-windy and muddy are not conducive to the goat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}