{"id":736,"date":"2008-05-26T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-05-26T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T09:54:20","slug":"736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/736\/","title":{"rendered":"(Stupid) Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Weighing 1.25 tons, and towering 6ft 6in at the shoulder, Chilli dwarfs most horses, is the same height as a small elephant, and <strong>could provide enough steaks to feed an army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The owners of Chilli, a black and white Friesian steer, believe he may be the tallest bovine in Britain. <\/p>\n<p>Naomi Clarke, care manager of the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Chard, Somerset, who raised the bullock, said: &#8220;As he was growing up we began noticing that he was bigger than our other cattle. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;He now stands at 6ft 6ins from the floor to the top of his shoulder and he is massive when he holds his head up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Balancing him on a set of scales would need 16 St Bernard dogs; 12 newborn elephants; five adult gorillas; or 1.5 Smart cars. <strong>He could provide 5,510 8 oz steaks.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/1949038\/Holy-cow---giant-Fresian-may-be-tallest-in-UK.html\">Meet the giant Friesian that may be UK&#8217;s tallest<\/a> is the Torygraph&#8217;s thoughtless reporting on a rescued steer living at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferneanimalsanctuary.org\/\">Ferne Animal Sanctuary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weighing 1.25 tons, and towering 6ft 6in at the shoulder, Chilli dwarfs most horses, is the same height as a small elephant, and could provide enough steaks to feed an army. The owners of Chilli, a black and white Friesian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/736\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,9],"tags":[13,30,33],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-moaning","category-thinking","tag-animals-in-agriculture","tag-stupid-comment","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}