{"id":10924,"date":"2014-07-24T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:58:26","slug":"shorty-and-the-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/07\/shorty-and-the-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorty and the Hounds"},"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;For riding out in the field, Meagan\u2019s favorite mount was a smoke-colored dun gelding she called Shorty, for the obvious reason. The horse\u2019s stubby legs and thick neck allowed only so much of the flexibility needed in dressage. Though he ambled around the sand arena gamely, Shorty only came into his own when galloping across open fields.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The premier of NEW artwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/marti-adrian\/\"><em>Marti Adrian Gregory<\/em><\/a> for <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> <em>trilogy<\/em>! The scene is from <em>The Golden Spark<\/em> (Book 2) &#8230; Meagan\u2019s borrowed 17th-century mount is spooked by dogs who give chase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GreatHorse002-Shorty_Fbk_960sq.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GreatHorse002-Shorty_Fbk_960sq.png\" alt=\"GreatHorse002 Shorty_Fbk_960sq\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GreatHorse002-Shorty_Fbk_960sq.png 960w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GreatHorse002-Shorty_Fbk_960sq-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GreatHorse002-Shorty_Fbk_960sq-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For riding out in the field, Meagan\u2019s favorite mount was a smoke-colored dun gelding she called Shorty, for the obvious reason. The horse\u2019s stubby legs and thick neck allowed only so much of the flexibility needed in dressage. Though he ambled around the sand arena gamely, Shorty only came into his own when galloping across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/07\/shorty-and-the-hounds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shorty and the Hounds&#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":[59,370],"tags":[118,375,301,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924"}],"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=10924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15484,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}