{"id":14422,"date":"2015-10-26T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/shepherds-guide-2000-sheep-through-madrid\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:02:02","slug":"shepherds-guide-2000-sheep-through-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/shepherds-guide-2000-sheep-through-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherds guide 2,000 sheep through Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MADRID \u2014<\/strong> Spanish shepherds have led 2,000 sheep through the streets of Madrid in defense of age-old droving, grazing and migration rights that are increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and fenced-in pastures.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists and children were surprised to see wide avenues blocked off in the Spanish capital to let the woolly parade \u2014 bleating loudly and clanking bells \u2014 cross the city, accompanied by sheepdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Government agriculture spokesman Carlos Cabanas says the tradition is essential to \u201cmaintain native breeds that are in danger of extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shepherds have held the right since at least 1273 to use droving routes across land that used to be open fields before Madrid became a sprawling metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>A shepherd handed over 150 maravedies \u2014 coins minted in the 11th century \u2014 to city officials for the crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID \u2014 Spanish shepherds have led 2,000 sheep through the streets of Madrid in defense of age-old droving, grazing and migration rights that are increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and fenced-in pastures. Tourists and children were surprised to see wide avenues blocked off in the Spanish capital to let the woolly parade \u2014 bleating loudly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":14423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}