{"id":2756,"date":"2010-07-26T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:51:08","slug":"18-how-to-know-a-great-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/07\/18-how-to-know-a-great-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"#18- How to know a Great Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mrs. Bridgestone tells all&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MBeste-parchment.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2764\" title=\"MBeste-parchment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MBeste-parchment-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Mageste Beste medieval parchment\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;First, a Great Horse is born at dawn. That is an unusual time for mares, as they usually foal near midnight. Secondly, no one can ride a Great Horse without the owner\u2019s permission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a good rule,\u201d Meagan said grinning, satisfied with the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd third, only the owners of a Great Horse will believe the legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy? It makes sense to me.\u201d Meagan squinted at the last line. \u201cWhat is this word, \u2018ichone?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is how they spelled \u2018each one.\u2019 So much of Old English is spelled strangely to us yet has the same sound. Each one of the masters, the owners, is told by a previous owner of the Great Horse. As I am telling you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou owned a Great Horse, Mrs. Bridgestone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wrinkled face clouded. \u201cNo, actually not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very nice story.\u201d Jennifer hushed her daughter with a glance. There was no need to disturb this nice woman\u2019s fantasies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Excerpted from pg. 59 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/\"><em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the award-winning 1st volume of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/\"><strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong>&#8221; trilogy. <\/a> (Hrdbk)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Book II: The Golden Spark<\/strong><\/em> will be available Fall 2010.<\/h4>\n<p><small>Copyright \u00a9 2008 John Royce<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First, a Great Horse is born at dawn. That is an unusual time for mares, as they usually foal near midnight. Secondly, no one can ride a Great Horse without the owner\u2019s permission.\u201d ~ <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em> (excerpt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[118,70,165,164,166,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756"}],"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=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15046,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/15046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}