{"id":921,"date":"2015-04-08T01:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T01:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-04-08T01:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T01:43:36","slug":"the-grass-is-sometimes-greener-but-it-isnt-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"The Grass is Sometimes Greener but it isn\u2019t Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You all know the idiom that the grass isn\u2019t always greener on the other side of the fence. \u00a0It is where we live. \u00a0We have too many animals for our acreage and our pastures are definitely overgrazed. \u00a0So, our animals are spoiled with extra grain and flakes of alfalfa twice a day. \u00a0They certainly aren&#8217;t starving. \u00a0In fact, one of our rancher friends often comments how all of the animals on our place look pregnant, even the males. \u00a0Still, the lusher grass on the other side of our fence line tempts them to always be looking for an opportunity to find a way over or under or through. \u00a0Though, when they do, almost always, we find them looking back into our barer pastures at their friends they left behind. \u00a0Maybe its because they\u2019re like soldiers who won\u2019t leave a comrade behind. \u00a0But, as soon as we open a nearby gate, they\u2019ll rush through the gate to be reunited with their pasture companions. \u00a0It\u2019s like they learn that the grass on the other side of the fence may indeed be greener but there\u2019s no place like home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You all know the idiom that the grass isn\u2019t always greener on the other side of the fence. \u00a0It is where we live. \u00a0We have too many animals for our acreage and our pastures are definitely overgrazed. \u00a0So, our animals are spoiled with extra grain and flakes of alfalfa twice a day. \u00a0They certainly aren&#8217;t [&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-921","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\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}