{"id":1914,"date":"2011-02-10T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:00:06","slug":"predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1915\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1915\" title=\"pregnant_Reese\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pregnant_Reese.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pregnant_Reese.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pregnant_Reese-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reese - The Matriarch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I laughed out loud when I took this picture.<\/p>\n<p>I was so careful to line up behind Reese. I wanted that perfectly square-on shot from her back end to show her growing abdomen (her lambing is just weeks away). Normally, she doesn&#8217;t let anyone stand behind her for too long. She is the matriarch, after all, and is usually front and center with everything and everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I wanted the picture in the first place, was to show her symmetrical, expanding abdomen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1918\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1918 \" title=\"pregnant_Rosie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pregnant_Rosie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"118\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosie - A Riveting Image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With only two weeks left until the start of lambing, the ewes that appear to be carrying twins are shaping up nicely &#8212; almost as if they have saddle bags hung neatly on each of their sides.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the gestation, I jump to all sorts of conclusions based on the way they are \u201cpresenting.\u201d One year, I was convinced Reese was only carrying one lamb (she has always twinned). She was carrying so low, and her sides just didn&#8217;t seem to protrude like they did in years past. When she went into labor, we watched in amazement and delight as she gave birth to triplets!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s shaping up to be just as exciting&#8230;.stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed out loud when I took this picture. I was so careful to line up behind Reese. I wanted that perfectly square-on shot from her back end to show her growing abdomen (her lambing is just weeks away). Normally, she doesn&#8217;t let anyone stand behind her for too long. She is the matriarch, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18,19,170,20,36,40,21],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-lambing","tag-navajo-churro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-raising-sheep","tag-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}