{"id":632,"date":"2021-09-19T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2021-09-19T23:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:48:59","slug":"australian-farmer-giant-heart-formed-by-sheep-moving-tribute-to-beloved-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/australian-farmer-giant-heart-formed-by-sheep-moving-tribute-to-beloved-aunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant heart formed from sheep: Australian farmer pays touching tribute to beloved aunt in astonishing video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/heart-sheep-australian-farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/25\/a-love-heart-made-out-of-sheep-australian-farmer-pays-tribute-to-his-aunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A sheep farmer stuck in lockdown in New South Wales who was unable to attend his aunt\u2019s funeral has honoured her memory with the ultimate tribute: a love heart made from sheep.<\/a><br>\nBen Jackson from Guyra couldn\u2019t make it to Brisbane to be with his aunt during her final moments after a two-year fight with cancer that began at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, she didn\u2019t make it,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cAt those times of grief, you feel really helpless, you don\u2019t know what to do, what to say.<br><br>\n\nThen, while out feeding his pregnant sheep some extra food, an idea came to him. He\u2019d seen before that if he drew shapes in the land, the sheep would gather.<br><br>\n\nJackson said he first started making his sheep art during a previous drought when he fed his sheep from the back of his flatbed truck every single day. He soon learned he could draw shapes in the landscape and that the sheep would gather. \u201cAnd they haven\u2019t forgotten yet,\u201d he said.<br><br>\n\n\u201cIt was very lovely to have it as part of a sendoff. It was certainly something that she would have loved and absolutely cherished.\u201d<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/sheep-love-heart-video-australia\/\">Twitter \/ @guyrajack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) A sheep farmer stuck in lockdown in New South Wales who was unable to attend his aunt\u2019s funeral has honoured her memory with the ultimate tribute: a love heart made from sheep. Ben Jackson from Guyra couldn\u2019t make it to Brisbane to be with his aunt during her final<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/australian-farmer-giant-heart-formed-by-sheep-moving-tribute-to-beloved-aunt\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[44,45,50,52,60,76],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-art","post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-poem","category-life-nature-society","category-us-and-world","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-image","tag-people","tag-true-story","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}