{"id":49474,"date":"2013-11-11T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=49474"},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:13:33","slug":"despicable-sheep-used-to-graze-in-church-graveyard-to-keep-grass-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=49474","title":{"rendered":"Despicable: Sheep used to graze in church GRAVEYARD to keep grass cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_847410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-49464\" alt=\"o_847410\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_847410.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_847410.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_847410-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/o_847410-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A church is using Sheep to graze in its GRAVEYARD as a cheap way to keep the grass cut.<\/p>\n<p>The move has sparked fury among families who have relatives buried there with the animals being allowed to roam over graves and destroy mementoes which are left.<\/p>\n<p>They say the graveyard looks like it has been \u201cvandalised\u201d but leaders at Holy Trinity Church in Grazeley say there is no money to pay for gardeners and grazing sheep is a traditional and cheap way of keeping the grass short.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Millard, 39, from Woodley, discovered the sheep when she went to visit the graves of her grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThe area they have put the sheep is where people still tend the graves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a little turnstile I go in rather than the main gates and I arrived to see four of them stood on my nan\u2019s grave. I was so heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church is using Sheep to graze in its GRAVEYARD as a cheap way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}