{"id":13043,"date":"2015-09-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2015-09-16T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T05:02:00","slug":"uber-for-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/uber-for-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber For Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091615_0457_UberForGoat1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what it sounds like, but there&#8217;s an Uber for goats. Michelle Martin described it in an article she wrote for, well, Playboy. But really, it&#8217;s not what it sounds like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goats like to forage for different types of vegetation to eat. They&#8217;ll eat things such as stinging nettles and ivy that other animals such as cows won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>By clearing brush they also reduce the risk of fires, and they fertilize as they go. As mountain climbers they&#8217;re particularly good at navigating around difficult terrain.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore government agencies, and owners of sprawling mountainous lands are increasingly hiring goats to remove weeds and clear vegetation.<\/li>\n<li>Rent-a-Ruminant has 115 working goats. It costs about $650 to use them for a small project.<\/li>\n<li>This seems expensive, but it includes the cost of placing electric fencing around poisonous plants, ensuring that workers that escape are quickly captured, and transportation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about how you can ensure that you&#8217;re getting the right goat provider, and other uses for the animals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/uber-goats-rental\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/uber-goats-rental\">Playboy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/08\/thursday-assorted-links-27.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a> (See? We&#8217;re not reading Playboy. Our friend gave it to us.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not what it sounds like, but there&#8217;s an Uber for goats. Michelle Martin described it in an article she wrote for, well, Playboy. But really, it&#8217;s not what it sounds like: Goats like to forage for different types of vegetation to eat. They&#8217;ll eat things such as stinging nettles and ivy that other animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091615_0457_UberForGoat1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}