{"id":589,"date":"2006-07-26T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:40:50","slug":"surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2006\/07\/26\/surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wow!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So on Friday I came home and little sis was there. Apparently she had been without power since 2 days before that and no power in the muggy humidity of Missouri sucks when you&#8217;re trying to sleep. So she came up here and enjoyed my a\/c for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t my only surprise on Friday, in the mail I received information from the Alpaca Owners &amp; Breeders Association!! I got a lovely pamphlet entitled &#8220;Meet the Alpaca&#8221; Did you know that alpacas only eat about 2% of their body weight in hay per day? Did you know there are two differend breed-types? The huacaya and the suri. One has more crimped or fluffy kind of fleece and the ohter has &#8220;pencil locks&#8221; of fleece that hang down in cacades.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an Alpaca Magazine. It&#8217;s a quarterly publication and a subscription is $50. yeah&#8230;that&#8217;s right 4 issues for $50!! That is just CRAZY TALK! I got 12 issues of National Geographic for half that! But I guess if you really want to become a part of the fast-growing alpaca farming industry it&#8217;d be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want more information on Alpaca farming, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpacainfo.com\">www.alpacainfo.com<\/a> and order the &#8220;value-packed 324 page publication&#8221; it is chock full of all kinds of stuff about being an alpaca farmer. I&#8217;m not quite ready to take that step. I don&#8217;t think the homeowners association where I live would allow an alpaca in the back yard. Plus this pamphlet says that alpacas have strong herding instincts, it&#8217;s not good to have only one. Although it could herd with Christian and Samantha&#8230;but I bet it&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! So on Friday I came home and little sis was there. Apparently she had been without power since 2 days before that and no power in the muggy humidity of Missouri sucks when you&#8217;re trying to sleep. So she came up here and enjoyed my a\/c for the weekend. But that wasn&#8217;t my only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alpaca","category-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}