{"id":1510,"date":"2016-06-09T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2016-06-10T23:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:02:34","slug":"a-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"A Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

We lost a sheep the other day. \u00a0No matter how many you lose, it\u2019s never easy, every one hurts. \u00a0At least we found comfort in the way she was found. \u00a0She had chosen a quiet corner of a pen tucked away inside our barn. \u00a0There, she had breathed her last breaths. \u00a0I remarked to my daughter how peaceful she looked, and even more comforting, how content. \u00a0Her head was elevated slightly resting on a smooth rock and she looked like she was smiling. \u00a0The way she was made it seem like in her final moments she had been thinking, “I had a good life.” \u00a0I really hope so. \u00a0She is survived by a daughter ewe, a grandson ram, and twin daughter lambs that are just at the age where they can take care of themselves. \u00a0It was like she knew she couldn\u2019t go until they didn\u2019t need her anymore. \u00a0What a good mamma she was! \u00a0She was one of our oldest ewes and seemed to have the respect of the rest of the flock, just like Maa, the elder sheep in the movie Babe. \u00a0I could see that sheep encouraging our\u00a0others to humor our children and give in to their shepherding attempts. \u00a0Our son was away on a Guatemala medical mission trip with my husband when she died. \u00a0It made him really sad that he didn\u2019t get to say goodbye. \u00a0All we have of her now is a little lock of wool in a heart-shaped box that our sweet neighbor made for us. \u00a0And, the memories\u00a0of her living a good life on the franch.<\/p>\n

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We lost a sheep the other day. \u00a0No matter how many you lose, it\u2019s never easy, every one hurts. \u00a0At least we found comfort in the way she was found. \u00a0She had chosen a quiet corner of a pen tucked away inside our barn. \u00a0There, she had breathed her last breaths. \u00a0I remarked to my […]<\/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-1510","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\/1510","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=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}