{"id":2810,"date":"2008-07-06T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2009-03-06T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T21:04:12","slug":"tip-top-bidding-at-junior-livestock-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"Tip Top Bidding At Junior Livestock Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tip Top Meats<\/strong> owner <strong>John Haedrich<\/strong> is a big bidder when it comes to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdfair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Fair&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> junior livestock auction. But, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080705-9999-1m5auction.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, he&#8217;s not buying the animals for his business. He&#8217;s bidding up the auctions to help the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4husa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">4-H<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Farmers of America<\/a><\/strong> kids make more money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Towering over the children at 6 feet, 6 inches, &#8220;Big John,&#8221; as the auctioneer called him, was an intimidating figure. As the children made their way to Haedrich&#8217;s seat to thank him for his help, his gentleness shone through his warm toothy grin. Haedrich gripped the childrens&#8217; hands between his own and offered words of encouragement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow, we&#8217;re not surprised. And it&#8217;s probably another reason why we breakfast at Tip Top Meats. Danke von allen uns, John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080705-9999-1m5auction.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip Top Meats owner John Haedrich is a big bidder when it comes to the San Diego County Fair&#8217;s junior livestock auction. But, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune, he&#8217;s not buying the animals for his business. He&#8217;s bidding up the auctions to help the 4-H and Future Farmers of America kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}