{"id":7816,"date":"2020-11-19T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:38:44","slug":"an-insouciance-of-dexters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/11\/19\/an-insouciance-of-dexters\/","title":{"rendered":"An Insouciance of Dexters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Walking along the Wansdyke last week we came across about 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dextercattle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Dexter-Champions-2020.pdf\">Dexters<\/a> \u2013 the smallest of our native cattle breeds. \u00a0 These are handsome beasts that the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust finds useful in grazing downland to encourage wild flowers to grow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They had arranged themselves along and across the path along the dyke and we wondered what they would do when we approached them. \u00a0As we soon found out, they did absolutely nothing. \u00a0 They did look our way but that was it. \u00a0Fine looking animals and confident in their possession of the space. \u00a0Not really wild, of course, but useful in encouraging wild things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Such was their indifference to us that I felt they deserved a collective noun, and I\u2019m proposing an <i>Insouciance<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along the Wansdyke last week we came across about 15 Dexters \u2013 the smallest of our native cattle breeds. \u00a0 These are handsome beasts that the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust finds useful in grazing downland to encourage wild flowers to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}