{"id":10911,"date":"2014-05-08T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:58:26","slug":"chouchou-the-reluctant-knights-destrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/05\/chouchou-the-reluctant-knights-destrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Chouchou, the reluctant Knight&#8217;s destrier"},"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><em>&#8220;Chouchou started down the Lane with promising speed, but when he scented the carefully laid turf\u2014obviously a thoughtful buffet\u2014he stopped and dropped his head.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/marti-adrian\/\"><em>Marti Adrian Gregory<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s miniature of the 13th-century knight <em>Henryk <\/em>and his trusty steed, <em>Chou Chou<\/em>, is a humorous rendition of what Meagan calls the &#8220;dynamic duo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chou Chou<\/em> means &#8216;teacher&#8217;s pet&#8217; in French, a name knight Henryk bestows upon his dream mount\u2015a Great Horse of Europe, a <em>destrier<\/em>\u2015who goes very slowly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Horse-character_Chouchou.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Horse-character_Chouchou.jpg\" alt=\"Chouchou, the reluctant knight&#039;s destrier (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-10915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Horse-character_Chouchou.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Horse-character_Chouchou-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Horse-character_Chouchou-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chouchou started down the Lane with promising speed, but when he scented the carefully laid turf\u2014obviously a thoughtful buffet\u2014he stopped and dropped his head.&#8221; Marti Adrian Gregory&#8216;s miniature of the 13th-century knight Henryk and his trusty steed, Chou Chou, is a humorous rendition of what Meagan calls the &#8220;dynamic duo.&#8221; Chou Chou means &#8216;teacher&#8217;s pet&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/05\/chouchou-the-reluctant-knights-destrier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chouchou, the reluctant Knight&#8217;s destrier&#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":[118,284,373,70,375,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911"}],"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=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15483,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}