{"id":9182,"date":"2026-02-16T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:47:37","slug":"there-was-once-a-sheep-farmer-who-needed-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9182","title":{"rendered":"There was once a sheep farmer who needed help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"266\">A sheep farmer hired a Frenchman to castrate some rams. After the first day, the Frenchman was about to throw away the \u201cparts,\u201d but the farmer yelled, \u201cNo! My wife fries them\u2014we call them \u2018sheep fries\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"367\">That night, the Frenchman tried them and loved them. Day two: more castrations, more sheep fries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"568\">On the third day, the farmer asked where the Frenchman was. His wife said, \u201cI told him since we had only a few sheep fries tonight, we\u2019d have <em data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"525\">French fries<\/em> too\u2026 and he screamed and ran like hell!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A sheep farmer hired a Frenchman to castrate some rams. After the first day, the Frenchman was about to throw away the \u201cparts,\u201d but the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9182\" title=\"There was once a sheep farmer who needed help\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}