{"id":2513,"date":"2010-06-09T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:44:59","slug":"eclipsed-by-shadow-meagans-first-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/06\/eclipsed-by-shadow-meagans-first-love\/","title":{"rendered":"#2- Meagan&#8217;s first love, Moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In modern-day California of 2001 &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meagan-and-Moose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2528\" title=\"_Meagan-and-Moose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meagan-and-Moose-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The pregnant mare\u2019s formal name was <em>Bright Lights<\/em>, but she was called Moose for her bay coat and rambling gait. Meagan had loved the huge mare since her second birthday, when she had been held up on Moose\u2019s wide back, terrified and grabbing fistfuls of mane, crying to be taken off immediately and put back on forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoose?\u201d Meagan turned on the barn\u2019s dim lights. The cool morning air was silent. Of course, she did not really believe the foal had come in the night: the veterinarian said it was still too soon. As with all the other mornings, she expected to find Moose munching her hay contentedly, enormous and alone in her stall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/chap1.html\">&raquo; Finish reading Chapter One of <em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><small>Copyright \u00a9 2008 John Royce<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px; font-size: .9em; font-weight: bold; color:#330000; text-align: center;\">&laquo; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/2010\/06\/eclipsed-by-shadow-excerpt-1-the-story-begins-and-we-meet-meagan\/\">The story begins&#8230;<\/a>\u201d || \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/2010\/06\/eclipsed-by-shadow-3-meagans-father\/\">Meagan\u2019s father, Tom<\/a>\u201d &raquo;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: .6em .7em 0em .8em; background-color: #C1DFFF; border: dotted 1px #330000; margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; color: #330000;\">\nThe above excerpt is from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/home\/\"><strong>Home<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d the 1st section of <strong><em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em><\/strong>, and is set in modern-day California. <em>(p. 1 Hbk)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy is an adventure through history &#8230; each section is about a different time period.<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em> (Book #1 of the trilogy) won <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/eclipsed-by-shadow-awards-honors\/\">national awards<\/a> including the <em>Eric Hoffer Award<\/em> for best Young Adult Fiction, and the <em>Mom&#8217;s Choice Award<\/em> for best family-friendly Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#330000;\">\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick Links:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"timeline-link\">\u00bb See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/excerpt-page\/\"><strong>All Excerpts<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-link\">\u00bb Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/chap1.html\"><strong>1st Chapter online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-link\">\u00bb Check out Book #2 of the trilogy: <em><strong>The Golden Spark<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-link\">\u00bb See the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/media-kit\/\"><strong>Media Kit<\/strong><\/a> for more information about the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Legend.of.the.Great.Horse\"><img style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/images\/sm\/icons\/fbk-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Check out the trilogy&#8217;s page on Facebook!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Meagan had loved the huge mare since her second birthday, when she had been held up on Moose\u2019s wide back, terrified and grabbing fistfuls of mane, crying to be taken off immediately and put back on forever.&rdquo; &mdash;excerpted from <b>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/b> (Book #1 of &lsquo;<em>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/em>&rsquo; trilogy (p.1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[118,70,165,164,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15039,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}