{"id":1168,"date":"2015-10-19T19:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2015-12-23T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:05:38","slug":"award-winning-children-or-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Children or Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSmile!\u201d \u00a0I snap a photo of our award-winning children each cradling one of our backyard chickens in their arms. \u00a0The chickens seem to know it\u2019s a big moment and look my way. \u00a0Our eldest has a first place ribbon dangling from her index finger for the best overall Polish Top Hat cockerel. \u00a0Our son has looped his 1st place ribbon over the neck of an Australorp hen. \u00a0Our youngest adjusts her wiggly chicken careful not to drop her 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place ribbon for the pullet class. \u00a0I glance over at my husband, an alumni of 4-H, who, to this day, still finds ways to remind us of all\u00a0his\u00a0childhood 4-H experiences and awards. \u00a0As I expected, his face is beaming with pride as his\u00a0children follow in his footsteps. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so proud of y&#8211;o&#8212;uuuuu!\u201d he says hugging our youngest daughter, squishing the chicken between them. \u00a0\u201cDad,\u201d she humbly corrects, \u201cDon\u2019t be proud of me. \u00a0Be proud of Bing-Bong!\u201d \u00a0I guess she&#8217;d correct me too and\u00a0say the snapshot I just took is\u00a0of our children holding some award-winning chickens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Version 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138-676x538.jpg 676w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5138.jpg 1341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSmile!\u201d \u00a0I snap a photo of our award-winning children each cradling one of our backyard chickens in their arms. \u00a0The chickens seem to know it\u2019s a big moment and look my way. \u00a0Our eldest has a first place ribbon dangling from her index finger for the best overall Polish Top Hat cockerel. \u00a0Our son has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}