{"id":2754,"date":"2015-06-16T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2015-06-24T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T11:31:28","slug":"first-cutting-of-hay-ahhhhhh-its-summer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/first-cutting-of-hay-ahhhhhh-its-summer-time\/","title":{"rendered":"First cutting of hay &#8211; ahhhhhh, it&#8217;s summer time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started around 6 in the evening yesterday and took it slowly to avoid mistakes after winter inactivity.\u00a0 Cut for about 4 hours.\u00a0 Looking forward to turning and baling.\u00a0 &#8216;Twas a lovely evening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/131085728?byline=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hay is a foundation of civilisation.\u00a0 Without it, animals can not last through the winter, making life difficult for humans too.<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of grass.\u00a0 The main ones are fescue (most predominant in the video), rye and timothy.\u00a0\u00a0 There are also herbs, like chicory and plantain, and clover.\u00a0 And most of the weeds are not bad to eat, they can even be good, but if they are large leaved they can interfere with the curing and drying of the hay.\u00a0 A mixed sward is the best feed &#8211; that&#8217;s what animals look for in the wild.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen horse graze on nettles, brambles, oak, beech and even reeds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started around 6 in the evening yesterday and took it slowly to avoid mistakes after winter inactivity.\u00a0 Cut for about 4 hours.\u00a0 Looking forward to turning and baling.\u00a0 &#8216;Twas a lovely evening. Hay is a foundation of civilisation.\u00a0 Without it, animals can not last through the winter, making life difficult for humans too. There are &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/first-cutting-of-hay-ahhhhhh-its-summer-time\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First cutting of hay &#8211; ahhhhhh, it&#8217;s summer time.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homenandgarden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Iq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}