{"id":41084,"date":"2017-12-02T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41084"},"modified":"2017-12-01T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:00:01","slug":"goat-yoga-gets-baaaaaa-nned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/goat-yoga-gets-baaaaaa-nned\/","title":{"rendered":"Goat Yoga Gets Baaaaaa-nned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7wAYntHqGXs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 1 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good, old-fashioned goats and the ancient Hindu practice of yoga are two things that don&#8217;t seem to go together.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, last year, a small farm in Corvallis, Oregon started offering classes that combined the two. Goat yoga is exactly what it sounds like: the practice of yoga in the presence of goats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- <\/p>\n<p>Soon these classes had a 900-person waiting list for an hour of ritual calisthenics with a bunch of horned ruminants. <\/p>\n<p>Within a year, the unlikely trend had spread across the nation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would go through the different asanas and the different flows,&#8221; explains Amanda Bowen, a goat-yoga instructor in Maryland, &#8220;and the goats will come around and interact with people as we&#8217;re doing the class.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And then the unstoppable force of goat yoga locked horns with the immovable object of the Washington, D.C. Department of Health. <\/p>\n<p>When Congressional Cemetery Director Paul Williams applied for a livestock permit in the District of Columbia, he was greeted by four lawyers &#8220;ready to throw every curve ball they possibly could at me to prevent goat yoga.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But goat springs eternal. Since Manchester, N.H. reversed its ban late last summer, the only place in the country where risk-averse municipal bureaucracies are undermining this fitness-to-farm trend threat is the nation&#8217;s capital. <\/p>\n<p>Produced, shot, narrated, and edited by Todd Krainin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 1 Dec 2017 Good, old-fashioned goats and the ancient Hindu practice of yoga are two things that don&#8217;t seem to go together. And yet, last year, a small farm in Corvallis, Oregon started offering classes that combined the two. Goat yoga is exactly what it sounds like: the practice of yoga in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[8,13],"tags":[661,985],"class_list":["post-41084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-usa","tag-regulation","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aGE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41085,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084\/revisions\/41085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}