{"id":50,"date":"2011-05-09T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-05-09T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:33:10","slug":"plant-mashers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/plant-mashers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Mashers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbk_share\"><div class=\"fcbk_like\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/plant-mashers\/\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" share=\"false\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2528\/5705751122_f9498bc3cd.jpg\" alt=\"lessie\" \/><br \/>\nLessie is really enjoying the new grasses in the aviary. Can you see him hiding? The grasses help him feel safe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3141\/5705711436_469f6c2f7c.jpg\" alt=\"plant\" \/><br \/>\nUnfortunately the chickens have a &#8220;scorched earth&#8221; policy towards plant life, and even ripped up 4 out of 7 of the brand new &#8220;deer proof&#8221; plants we planted on Sunday&#8230; the day before they ripped them up. I could see them ripping them up live on the webcam, but couldn&#8217;t stop them from my desk at work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3059\/5705750644_cf2ca65f74.jpg\" alt=\"trial\" \/><br \/>\nThis is my first attempt to keep the chickens from ripping up the plants. We&#8217;ll see if it works tomorrow. Wish the plants luck!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3170\/5706010868_80b68d4c07.jpg\" alt=\"nerds\" \/><br \/>\nIn other news, we got a prank call today from&#8230; a turtle. It turns out it was Jose and Angela, fellow duck nuts. Thankfully my recording has not been posted online yet, and maybe it won&#8217;t be. We can only hope! It was pretty fun though, but of course this means I have to plan my payback. Mwah ha haaaaa.<\/p>\n<p>Be afraid, Jose &amp; Angela. Be very afraid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbk_share\"><div class=\"fcbk_like\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/plant-mashers\/\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" share=\"false\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessie is really enjoying the new grasses in the aviary. Can you see him hiding? The grasses help him feel safe. Unfortunately the chickens have a &#8220;scorched earth&#8221; policy towards plant life, and even ripped up 4 out of 7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/plant-mashers\/\">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":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducksandclucks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}