{"id":1502,"date":"2013-03-18T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T08:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T08:57:13","slug":"preparing-for-winter-pt-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/preparing-for-winter-pt-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Winter Pt II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130318-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1495\" alt=\"20130318 002\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130318-002-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130318-002-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130318-002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It seems strange to be thinking of winter on a 31 degree day, but a couple of cool nights and one wet day stirred me into action to prepare the horses&#8217; rugs. Every year, I tell myself that I will wash and store the rugs at the end of winter. \u00a0Every year, I leave them on the stable rails until they are full of spiders and insects. \u00a0Brad stepped up to help me open them out and to kill the bugs before hosing them down. \u00a0It is much better with two people as you can both hold the rug at arms length while whacking the redbacks. \u00a0I will buy 3 boxes to store them in this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldersweather.com.au\/raindates.jsp?lc=w03&amp;dc=disableCookies\" target=\"_blank\">as the long range forecast<\/a> suggests I won&#8217;t need them until late April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems strange to be thinking of winter on a 31 degree day, but a couple of cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-horses","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130318-002.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}