{"id":5386,"date":"2013-11-03T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2013-12-01T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T08:16:21","slug":"helpful-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/helpful-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5052\" alt=\"20131103 028\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-028-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-028-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-028.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It looked like the kids were all set to give me a hand with the mucking out, but it soon became clear that play was more what they hand in mind. \u00a0 Everyday I use a cat litter scoop to separate \u00a0any &#8220;berries&#8221; that they have deposited in the sand in the pen, and twice a week, I clear out all the soiled bedding and top up with the discarded hay. \u00a0They are fairly picky eaters, so there is no shortage of clean bedding for them. \u00a0If I do run low, I can always get at least a barrow full from 27 y.o. Bowie&#8217;s stall. \u00a0He is just as picky as the goats.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5051\" alt=\"20131103 032\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-032-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-032-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-032.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looked like the kids were all set to give me a hand with the mucking out, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goats","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131103-028.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","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=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}