{"id":10813,"date":"2014-04-09T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:58:19","slug":"the-great-horse-scythian-royal-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/04\/the-great-horse-scythian-royal-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Horse: Scythian Royal Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd historic Great Horse wore a headdress according to Scythian custom, but Meagan (and readers) never know him: the animal was sacrificed with a tombful of horses and human attendants to be an escort for a Scythian chieftain in the after-world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse2_TombEscort.png\" alt=\"Horse sacrificed in a Scythian tomb (700 BC) from Eclipsed by Shadow, Book #1 of THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT HORSE trilogy\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse2_TombEscort.png 480w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse2_TombEscort-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse2_TombEscort-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd historic Great Horse wore a headdress according to Scythian custom, but Meagan (and readers) never know him: the animal was sacrificed with a tombful of horses and human attendants to be an escort for a Scythian chieftain in the after-world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370],"tags":[118,70,375,199,402,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15255,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/15255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}