{"id":585,"date":"2010-07-31T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/\/?p=585"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:14:39","slug":"a-flock-of-mels-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"A Flock of Mel&#8217;s Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M in M Schettl Sales stands for Mel. He wasn&#8217;t in at the time of our visit but we were given the run of the place by the manager on duty. Mel sells just about anything. These\u00a0six\u00a0birds were on trailers and out in the field. Mel sells the trailers and the animals too.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.jimsbigthings.com\\\/?p=585\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-585 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=589'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"193\" 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width=\"145\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?fit=145%2C97\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?w=2125 2125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?resize=1024%2C683 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?resize=225%2C150 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?resize=150%2C100 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0627.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" data-attachment-id=\"590\" 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He wasn&#8217;t in at the time of our visit but we were given the run of the place by the manager on duty. Mel sells just about anything. These\u00a0six\u00a0birds were on trailers and out in the field. Mel sells the trailers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=585\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-9r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}