{"id":6164,"date":"2025-04-18T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:07:27","slug":"there-was-once-a-sheep-farmer-who-needed-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"There was once a sheep farmer who needed help"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>There was once a sheep farmer who needed help with the difficult task of castrating some of his inferior male sheep to keep them from breeding with the females.<\/h2>\n<p>He hired a French guy who didn\u2019t speak English, but was a very good worker.<\/p>\n<p>After the first day, they had successfully castrated 14 sheep and his French worker was just about to throw away the \u2018parts\u2019, but the sheep farmer yelled, \u201cNo! Don\u2019t throw those away! My wife fries them up and we eat them. They\u2019re delicious and we call them \u2018sheep fries\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, the French hired hand came in for supper and indeed, the \u2018sheep fries\u2019 were tasty.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, they castrated 16 sheep, and the following evening they all settled down to another supper of \u2018sheep fries\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The third day, however, when the sheep farmer came home, he asked his wife where the French hired hand was.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cYou know, it was the weirdest thing! I told him since there weren\u2019t very many \u2018sheep fries\u2019 this evening, we were also going to have French fries. Then he screamed and ran like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a sheep farmer who needed help with the difficult task of castrating some of his inferior male sheep to keep them from breeding with the females. He hired a French guy who didn\u2019t speak English, but was a very good worker. After the first day, they had successfully castrated 14 sheep and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/6165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}