{"id":1353,"date":"2016-08-07T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2016-08-07T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T16:23:28","slug":"3-grand-national-champs-vacationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"3 Grand National Champs Vacationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1360\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-gnchampions-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-gnchampions-1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"3 GN champions\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-gnchampions-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-gnchampions-1.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Three Grand National Grouse Champions<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are grateful, blessed and humbled to have three living Grand National Champions in our kennel.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think of any other kennel in history to have three grouse champions with these national titles alive at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>As with other competitive dogs, these champs have worked hard over the past years and they need a break&#8211;a vacation from hunting.<\/p>\n<p>From left to right:\u00a0 Grand National Grouse Champion Full Blast with my brother, Jim Watts. Jim has owned and hunted sons of Wire and Body Guard. \u00a0 In the center, Grand National Grouse and Woodcock Champion Straight Forward with Jim Smythe.\u00a0 Jim owned the dam of Straight Forward, Quixstar, after we retired her.\u00a0 Quixstar was a terrific bird dog.\u00a0 On the right is Grand National Grouse Champion Full Tilt with Bob Watts.\u00a0 &#8220;Callie&#8221; is retired.\u00a0 Yesterday a person who comes by my place often was looking at Callie and I said &#8220;she&#8217;s 13&#8221;.\u00a0 He said, &#8220;Gee, I thought she was one of your pups.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Callie&#8221; is in the house every evening but she&#8217;s itching to get out and go with the other dogs in the dog pasture every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are grateful, blessed and humbled to have three living Grand National Champions in our kennel.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think of any other kennel in history to have three grouse champions with these national titles alive at the same time. As with other competitive dogs, these champs have worked hard over the past years and they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}