{"id":4102,"date":"2011-02-06T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2011-02-06T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:25:56","slug":"free-horse-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/free-horse-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Free horse poop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/02\/06\/free-horse-poop\/freehorsepoop_0211\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FreeHorsePoop_0211.jpg\" alt=\"A load of free horse poop, courtesy of Freecycle\" title=\"FreeHorsePoop_0211\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FreeHorsePoop_0211.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FreeHorsePoop_0211-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; courtesy of a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecycle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freecycler<\/a>. And her horse, of course. Not to mention several hours of shoveling and hauling and borrowing of trucks. AND it came with an invitation to come back any time for more. The neglected soil next to my garage will appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>The truck belongs to a cop from a nearby town and was acquired for this job by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/09\/09\/a-good-word-for-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Friend the Cop&#8217;s Mom<\/a>, who shared in the bounty.<\/p>\n<p>On the way from my house to hers, a different cop pulled us over for &#8212; of all things &#8212; a faded license plate. First words out of my friend&#8217;s mouth: &#8220;I&#8217;m [cop&#8217;s name]&#8217;s mom and this is his truck.&#8221; After that, the cop just smiled, said he was going to give [cop] a hard time, and didn&#8217;t even look at her proffered license.<\/p>\n<p>I still say it&#8217;s a mild form of police corruption. But we wouldn&#8217;t have gotten a ticket for such an bitty little thing, anyhow. So what the heck. I&#8217;ll go with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; courtesy of a local Freecycler. And her horse, of course. Not to mention several hours of shoveling and hauling and borrowing of trucks. AND it came with an invitation to come back any time for more. The neglected soil next to my garage will appreciate that. The truck belongs to a cop from a nearby town and was acquired for this job by My Friend the Cop&#8217;s Mom, who shared in the bounty. On the way from my house to hers, a different cop pulled us over for &#8212; of all things &#8212; a faded license plate. First words&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/free-horse-poop\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free horse poop!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-freedom","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}