{"id":10833,"date":"2014-04-28T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:58:26","slug":"the-great-horses-targa-the-mongolian-warpony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/04\/the-great-horses-targa-the-mongolian-warpony\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Horses: Targa, the Mongolian warpony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 420px;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/quotation-mk_open_38w.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/quotation-mk_open_38w.gif\" alt=\"quotation mark\" width=\"38\" height=\"29\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10752\" \/><\/a><strong>&#8220;Her grandfather had a saying: <em>sometimes you can trust a horse and sometimes you can\u2019t\u2014<br \/> and sometimes you have to.&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The 4th Great Horse Meagan meets in history is a no-nonsense Mongolian warpony she dubs \u2018Targa\u2019 \u2026 the two bond together in an era when a good horse could make the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n<p>This miniature artwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/marti-adrian\/\"><em>Marti Adrian Gregory<\/em><\/a> captures the close partnership the pair develop as they try to outrun the Mongol army and survive medieval life in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse_Targa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse_Targa.jpg\" alt=\"Targa, the Mongolian warpony from 1240 AD ... from Eclipsed by Shadow, Book #1 of THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT HORSE trilogy: (c) Micron Press. Illustration by Marti Adrian.\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse_Targa.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse_Targa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GreatHorse_Targa-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Her grandfather had a saying: sometimes you can trust a horse and sometimes you can\u2019t\u2014 and sometimes you have to.&#8221; The 4th Great Horse Meagan meets in history is a no-nonsense Mongolian warpony she dubs \u2018Targa\u2019 \u2026 the two bond together in an era when a good horse could make the difference between life and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/04\/the-great-horses-targa-the-mongolian-warpony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Horses: Targa, the Mongolian warpony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370],"tags":[118,70,375,128,281,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833"}],"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=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15482,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/15482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}