{"id":1055,"date":"2010-08-27T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2010-08-27T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:15:44","slug":"crop-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Crop Circles ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1056\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1056 \" title=\"Corn, Greenhouse in the background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn1.png\" alt=\"Corn, Greenhouse in the background\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corn, Greenhouse in the background<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My niece Jennifer can be a bit of a trickster, so when her and Jessica informed me that a space ship landed in my corn and made a crop circle, I took the news with a grain of salt and didn&#8217;t believe them. They insisted that I go look, and I was waiting for one of their friends to come jumping out from the corn in an elaborate attempt to startle me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1057\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1057\" title=\"Room Sized Area Knocked Over\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn2.png\" alt=\"Room Sized Area Knocked Over\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Room Sized Area Knocked Over<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What I found was not other worldly, nor in the shape of a circle, but it surely was worth pondering about. Several areas of corn plants the size of a decent living room had been knocked over. Many of the ears of corn in this section of the garden were not yet ready for picking, and would be lost. It&#8217;s not a big problem, as we got carried away and planted way too many rows of corn, but I am left wondering who or what\u00a0did this ?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1058\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1058\" title=\"More Damage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/corn3.png\" alt=\"More Damage\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Damage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The damage seemed to flow in from the top of the garden, meandering back and forth, and finally exitting near the right edge of the garden. I imagine the only animal large enough to do this would be a bear, or a group of deer bedding down for the night. I couldn&#8217;t find any paw or hoof marks, so I&#8217;m left wondering: Could wind do this ?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all bad though, I&#8217;ve informed Jenny that she can feed the stalks and underdeveloped corn to her goat, and she smilled from ear to ear. She&#8217;s been thinking about getting five more goats, and this would be the supply of food to feed them till she has her mother take\u00a0her to buy more feed. \u00a0We&#8217;ve surely planted enough for all, even the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece Jennifer can be a bit of a trickster, so when her and Jessica informed me that a space ship landed in my corn and made a crop circle, I took the news with a grain of salt and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,132],"tags":[235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}