{"id":71,"date":"2004-07-02T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","slug":"july_2_2004_buller_louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"July 2, 2004 Buller, Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of wrong turns\u2026.<br \/>\nI\u00a0left Turtle Bayou around noon and crossed the Texas Border into Louisiana heading toward O\u2019Brian\u2019s Flying Service. In the town of Iowa, Louisiana a wrong turn down HWY 383 brought me\u00a0to Boogah Red\u2019s Vegetable Stand and family farm,in Buller La. After purchasing watermelon, tomatoes, green chile, squash and other goodies I\u00a0made photographs of the Newman Family and friends. As the sun set on us, in the swamps and farm country of Louisiana, I was\u00a0invited to park the airstream next to The Newman\u2019s barn for the night. Tonight, the whole family would be working late into the night sheering sheep for a livestock competition that their daughter, Jayde is attending tomorrow. Hours later as the sheep quiet down and the night slips away I had\u00a0the feeling that I\u00a0really did make the right turn after all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/big-newman-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"441\" \/><br \/>\nThe Newman Family and Friends<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/family1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nDakota, and The Newmans: Jayde, T Jon and Angie worken the sheep<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jayde-and-dad1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nT Jon and Jayde Newman<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dmk-sheep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nDMK and his new Friends<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jayde1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>\nJayde worken a sheep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of wrong turns\u2026. I\u00a0left Turtle Bayou around noon and crossed the Texas Border into Louisiana heading toward O\u2019Brian\u2019s Flying Service. In the town of Iowa, Louisiana a wrong turn down HWY 383 brought me\u00a0to Boogah Red\u2019s Vegetable Stand and family farm,in Buller La. After purchasing watermelon, tomatoes, green chile, squash and other goodies I\u00a0made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}