{"id":217358,"date":"2010-01-10T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T02:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2010-01-10T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T02:11:26","slug":"little-lost-sheep-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217358","title":{"rendered":"Little Lost Sheep of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep-snow400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep-snow400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sheep-snow400\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-771\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheep in England<\/strong>, where a cold snap has blanketed the country in snow. I shouldn&#8217;t really describe it as a <em>cold snap<\/em>, the weather is extreme and dangerous. People under 40 haven&#8217;t experienced these heavy snowfalls and extreme sub-zero temperatures before and it&#8217;s life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little different in Australia where we see snow only in the high mountains and the High Country winter resorts employ snow-making machines in our coldest months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep-drought4001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sheep-drought4001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sheep-drought400\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheep in Australia<\/strong>, where we still lie in this long, long drought. People under 40 haven&#8217;t experienced any other weather but this. Like me, they can&#8217;t begin to imagine water falling from the sky in clumps.<\/p>\n<p>Surely to goodness in these days of space rockets, satellites and sliced bread, something could be done about the imbalance?<\/p>\n<p>Snow, after all, is just dirty water. A few of those container ships packed with snow would be a godsend Downunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"buymebeer\">\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\"  method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_xclick\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"susanna@yarralink.com\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"return\" value=\"\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Buy Me a Beer for Little Lost Sheep of the World\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"amount\" value=\"$2.50\" \/><input type=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allinfoaboutgrandparents.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/buy-me-beer\/icon_cafe.gif\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/form>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=susanna@yarralink.com&amp;currency_code=&amp;amount=$2.50&amp;return=&amp;item_name=Buy+Me+a+Beer+for+Little+Lost+Sheep+of+the+World\" >Spare a shilling for a glass of sweet sherry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep in England, where a cold snap has blanketed the country in snow. I shouldn&#8217;t really describe it as a cold snap, the weather is extreme and dangerous. People under 40 haven&#8217;t experienced these heavy snowfalls and extreme sub-zero temperatures before and it&#8217;s life-threatening. It&#8217;s a little different in Australia where we see snow only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}