{"id":253,"date":"2012-07-10T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:46:29","slug":"exploring-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/exploring-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_254\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/18-days-birdbath-best.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"18 days birdbath best\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/18-days-birdbath-best-e1341944320322-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"lamb in birdbath\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/18-days-birdbath-best-e1341944320322-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/18-days-birdbath-best-e1341944320322-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowflake in the birdbath with sister Aurora watching (photo credit: Cassie Ibarra)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the joys of having animals roam free is getting to watch their explorations of the wide world. Here is Snowflake at 18 days old discovering the birdbath and figuring out what to do with it, while her sister, Aurora, looks on.<\/p>\n<p>Not long before this, Aurora jumped up on her mother&#8217;s back (Fleur-de-Lys was grazing at the time) and wavered there, trying to keep her balance as her mother walked through the grass. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it. My Columbian lamb Wonder didn&#8217;t climb the way these two Icelandic ones do\u2014sometimes they seem more goat than sheep. I found Aurora on top of a stack of two bales of hay\u2014no small height for a two-week-old lamb to scale.<\/p>\n<p>At different times during the day, the animals come to the shade of the oak tree arching over the birdbath and the water bucket for a drink from either or both.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_256\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ulysses-drink2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-256\" title=\"ulysses drink2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ulysses-drink2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"donkey at the water bucket\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ulysses-drink2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ulysses-drink2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ulysses-drink2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ulysses coming for a drink<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of having animals roam free is getting to watch their explorations of the wide world. Here is Snowflake at 18 days old discovering the birdbath and figuring out what to do with it, while her sister, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/exploring-the-world\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donkeys","category-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}