{"id":144,"date":"2008-08-25T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clean-round.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:22","slug":"the-legend-of-the-great-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2008\/08\/the-legend-of-the-great-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Legend&#8221; explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>In the Beginning, Man so angered the Lord he was cast from the Garden. In the midst of the Lord&#8217;s wrath an Angel came onto Him. The Angel asked permission to lead Mankind back again to Paradise, and wished to be given a shape to best serve Man in his exile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This love stayed the Lord&#8217;s wrath. The Four Winds swirled into a shape of beauty that moved to thunder &#8230; the Angel took form and became the first Horse.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>(excerpted from <em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So begins &#8220;the legend&#8221; from <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy. Legends and myth shape the world of our imagination, and none is more universal than the belief that the horse is associated with the supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>This idea is seen in Western Civilization&#8217;s own Greek myths of the winged horse <em>Pegasus<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It is also found in Islam, where Mohammed&#8217;s horse <em>Buraq<\/em> made a great leap into Heaven which left a hoofprint still to be seen in Jerusalem &#8230; according to legend, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Beginning, Man so angered the Lord he was cast from the Garden. In the midst of the Lord&#8217;s wrath an Angel came onto Him. The Angel asked permission to lead Mankind back again to Paradise, and wished to be given a shape to best serve Man in his exile. This love stayed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2008\/08\/the-legend-of-the-great-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Legend&#8221; explained&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[118,121,45,119,120,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}