{"id":3329,"date":"2021-09-01T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2021-09-01T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:03:37","slug":"this-australian-farmer-draws-heart-with-sheep-in-tribute-to-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/09\/01\/this-australian-farmer-draws-heart-with-sheep-in-tribute-to-aunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Farmer Draws Heart with Sheep in Tribute to Aunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Australian farmer is paying tribute to his aunt Debby who lost her two-year cancer battle.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in Australia, Ben Jackson wasn\u2019t able to say goodbye to his aunt, who lived 400 km away from him.<\/p>\n<p>To pay tribute, the young man scattered grains across the farm, in the shape of a heart, then released his flock, with thousands of sheep on their way to munch on the grains, filling up the heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt hopeless, helpless \u2013 I didn\u2019t really know what to do. But because I was doing a bit of feeding already, I just decided to do a massive heart in the ground, which in all earnest, pales in comparison to hers,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-58338661\"><strong>BBC News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the sheep coming together were captured through a drone on video, and since sharing it online, the video has gone viral. It was being shared across social media, and being played on Australian TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would be proud as a punch to see so many people smiling and enjoying the heart I\u2019ve made for her. It\u2019s just love. Love\u2019s sensational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video of the flock coming together, shaping a heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av-embeds\/58338661\/vpid\/p09t78k0\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An Australian farmer is paying tribute to his aunt Debby who lost her two-year cancer battle. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in Australia, Ben Jackson wasn\u2019t able to say goodbye to his aunt, who lived 400 km away from him. To pay tribute, the young man scattered grains across the farm, in the shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}