{"id":20401,"date":"2014-04-03T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2014-04-03T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T22:28:54","slug":"mean-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mean-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Sheep of Falmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over what to post tonight and in the end have opted to keep it tightly focused on this small group of horned sheep that I stumbled across while out near local woodland. I could hear them before I could see them (cracking branches and so on), and it took me a while to work out what was causing the noise. I eventually found my way to where they were, and I have to say they presented a magnificently mean image. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149683-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Horned sheep\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149683-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149683.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149685-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Horned sheep\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149685-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149685-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149685.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149732-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Horned sheep\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149732-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149732-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149732.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149738-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Horned sheep\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149738-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149738-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149738.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149740-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Horned sheep\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149740-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149740-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/horned_sheep_0304149740.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A makeshift fence had been erected to keep them penned in at one end of the area, so presumably they were being grazed in the wood by a local farmer. Whatever the reason for their appearance there, they looked great against that background, and certainly take the prize for the meanest looking sheep I&#8217;ve ever come across. And boy could they stare!<\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over what to post tonight and in the end have opted to keep it tightly focused on this small group of horned sheep that I stumbled across while out near local woodland. I could hear them before I could see them (cracking branches and so on), and it took me a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,1041],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming-2","category-sheep-wildlife","tag-sheep","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}