{"id":67969,"date":"2017-03-05T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-auctions-off-59000-worth-of-bison\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T06:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:34:28","slug":"denver-auctions-off-59000-worth-of-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-auctions-off-59000-worth-of-bison\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver auctions off $59,000 worth of bison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Denver Post reports that officials from the city Parks and Recreation Department auctioned off 23 bison Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s profits marked a new record for the department and were 22 percent more than last year\u2019s $48,000.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-priced bison was a 10-month-old male that sold for $3,600.<\/p>\n<p>According to city officials, the group of grass-fed bison is related to the last wild bison herd in the U.S., located in Yellowstone.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining the Denver herd is part of an effort to help preserve the bison, which were nearly wiped out in the 1880s.<\/p>\n<p>The profits from the auction fund the animals\u2019 food and veterinarian costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post reports that officials from the city Parks and Recreation Department auctioned off 23 bison Friday. This year\u2019s profits marked a new record for the department and were 22 percent more than last year\u2019s $48,000. The highest-priced bison was a 10-month-old male that sold for $3,600. According to city officials, the group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[281,1263],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-ranching"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67969"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}