{"id":663,"date":"2010-06-05T06:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T10:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/?p=663"},"modified":"2010-07-14T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:39:11","slug":"cows-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2010\/06\/05\/cows-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cows on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the 9th year of our annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strollingoftheheifers.com\/v2\/\">Strolling of the Heifers<\/a>.\u00a0 We have been to every one, except the year of the thunderstorm, even I am not dedicated enough for that.\u00a0 It may sound like the silliest parade ever, but it sure is popular.\u00a0 Our town fills up with locals and out-of-towners, all to see over 60 heifers, plus dozens of goats, mules, sheep, oxen, Highland Cows, tons of school kids, dance groups, bands, jump ropers, local businesses, non-profit groups, theater companies, and a man in a ballgown.\u00a0 I love the small town-ness of it all.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind the traffic and the crowd.\u00a0 It is something that makes Brattleboro different.\u00a0 I know there are places that use the slogan &#8220;Keep Blankity-blank Weird&#8221;, but non of these places have anything on us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-667\" title=\"Strolling of the Heifers\" src=\"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cow-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cow-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cow-1024x847.png 1024w, https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cow.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the 9th year of our annual Strolling of the Heifers.\u00a0 We have been to every one, except the year of the thunderstorm, even I am not dedicated enough for that.\u00a0 It may sound like the silliest parade ever, but it sure is popular.\u00a0 Our town fills up with locals and out-of-towners, all to <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2010\/06\/05\/cows-on-parade\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[56,70,71,57],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-hometown","tag-bug","tag-parade","tag-photos","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}