title: How to check if row is soft-deleted in Eloquent?
body: <p>In Laravel 5.1 is there a nice way to check if an eloquent model object has been soft-deleted? I'm not talking about selecting data but once I have the object e.g. <code>Thing::withTrashed()-&gt;find($id)</code></p>
  
  <p>So far the only way I can see is</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ($thing-&gt;deleted_at !== null) { ... }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do not see any relevant method <a href="http://laravel.com/api/5.1/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.html">in the API</a> that would allow for example</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ($thing-&gt;isDeleted()) { ... }
  </code></pre>