{"id":1855,"date":"2017-10-23T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:17:24","slug":"went-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/went-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Went to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, as we were trying to leave for KC, things just didn&#8217;t fall into place. \u00a0I needed daylight to look at cattle on my way. \u00a0I also had to load and deliver several wethers along the way. \u00a0Duke had one goat sheared, a 64 pounder. \u00a0I said, &#8220;Load him and let&#8217;s go.&#8221; \u00a0Basically, we went to KC just to play. \u00a0Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Edwards Blvd. BBQ, 801 Chophouse, Rockstar Burgers, spook houses, our first Uber and lots of cool people. \u00a0We had a large time. \u00a0Most of the big boys from across the USofA was in Kansas City this past week. \u00a0As a result of not really taking a goat, I watched the show with complete objectivity. \u00a0And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And this show was the best that I have ever seen at the Royal. \u00a0Top end quality of every class was extremely good. \u00a0Watching class 1 was a fore-shadowing of what was to come. \u00a0That little class was loaded deep with good ones, probably 10 deep. \u00a0There were dang good Texas goats, Okie goats, Yankee goats and plenty of other places brought good goats. \u00a0The goats were good, the showmanship was good and the fitting and presentation was good. \u00a0It was apparent that Kedrick&#8217;s crew came to play. \u00a0Those goats looked the part and as a result, they dominated.<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to all the exhibitors, spectators and people that attended the American Royal this year. \u00a0We went to play and we had a large time. \u00a0Now, back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, as we were trying to leave for KC, things just didn&#8217;t fall into place. \u00a0I needed daylight to look at cattle on my way. \u00a0I also had to load and deliver several wethers along the way. \u00a0Duke had one goat sheared, a 64 pounder. \u00a0I said, &#8220;Load him [&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\/1855"}],"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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}