{"id":22240,"date":"2014-07-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22240"},"modified":"2014-07-05T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:05:55","slug":"my-gentle-barn-by-ellie-laks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-gentle-barn-by-ellie-laks\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gentle Barn by Ellie Laks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1050884\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/my-gentle-barn.jpg?resize=265%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"my gentle barn\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/my-gentle-barn.jpg?w=265&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/my-gentle-barn.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>Ellie Laks started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentlebarn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gentle Barn<\/a> after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentlebarn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gentle Barn<\/a> has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to rehabilitate abandoned and\/or abused animals. As Ellie teaches the volunteers to care for the animals, they learn a new language of healing that works wonders on the humans as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1050884\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My Gentle Barn<\/strong><\/em><\/a> weaves together the story of how the Barn came to be what it is today with Ellie&#8217;s own journey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries, <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1050884\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My Gentle Barn<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir readers alike. <em>(description from publisher)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-gentle-barn-by-ellie-laks\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2671,823,2672],"class_list":["post-22240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-animal-rescue","tag-kindness","tag-rehabilitation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5MI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}