{"id":6457,"date":"2014-05-29T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2014-06-22T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:11:57","slug":"not-so-faraway-alpaca-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"Not So Faraway Alpaca Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-170229-61349172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140529-170229-61349172.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-170229-61349172.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We visited Faraway Farm in Yorktown Heights, NY. The alpacas had their annual haircuts last week and seemed to be enjoying their freedom on this warm, sunny spring day. \u00a0Without their beautiful thick fur, they look more like miniature versions of their camel cousins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-170802-61682091.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140529-170802-61682091.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-170802-61682091.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The alpacas enjoy the relatively cool weather of northern Westchester, especially the cold and snowy winters. \u00a0We walked among three friendly young males. There were separate pens for males, females, and youngsters. \u00a0Everyone was anticipating the birth of five baby alpacas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-171106-61866595.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140529-171106-61866595.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140529-171106-61866595.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alpacas are not usually especially friendly, but Avalanche is a cuddly exception. \u00a0Check out Faraway Farm&#8217;s website for specific information and more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 25, 2014 We visited Faraway Farm in Yorktown Heights, NY. The alpacas had their annual haircuts last week and seemed to be enjoying their freedom on this warm, sunny spring day. \u00a0Without their beautiful thick fur, they look more like miniature versions of their camel cousins. The alpacas enjoy the relatively cool weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-united-states","category-local-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}