{"id":993,"date":"2010-08-15T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-08-15T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T20:07:50","slug":"babe-the-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Babe the Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_994\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/sloptrough.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994\" title=\"Slop Trough\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/sloptrough.png\" alt=\"Slop Trough\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slop Trough<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I was visiting Sandy, I found out that one of her pigs was for sale, so I talked to Mom later in the day, and asked if she could pay for half. I told her I would take care of it daily, and we could split the meat when the pig goes to heaven just before winter.<\/p>\n<p>So this morning, I started the day by building a Slop Trough. I couldn&#8217;t remember just how tall the pig was, so I made the trough so that a short pig could easily get to the food. Just as I was finishing up, I got the call that the pig was ready for transport. I set off in my Chevy Cobalt, and found it doesn&#8217;t make much of a livestock transport. We had to disassemble the &#8220;dog carrier&#8221; kennel and reassemble it inside my truck.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_995\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/babe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-995\" class=\"size-full wp-image-995\" title=\"&quot;Babe&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/babe.png\" alt=\"&quot;Babe&quot;\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Babe&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Babe in her new home, inside a horse stall in Mom&#8217;s barn. My niece named her, when she was over at Sandy&#8217;s farm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_996\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/growing-bacon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-996\" class=\"size-full wp-image-996\" title=\"Growing Bacon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/growing-bacon.png\" alt=\"Growing Bacon\" width=\"540\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Growing Bacon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found out that pigs love tomatoes, blight included, so I&#8217;ve found I&#8217;m now growing Bacon, rather then tomatoes&#8230;. I love bacon, and Babe loves garden scrapes. She&#8217;s got quite a selection of garden goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I just need some cows&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was visiting Sandy, I found out that one of her pigs was for sale, so I talked to Mom later in the day, and asked if she could pay for half. I told her I would take care &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=993\">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":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}