{"id":3311,"date":"2010-08-31T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2017-05-15T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:14:50","slug":"34-the-cave-horse-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/08\/34-the-cave-horse-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cave Horse (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;A horse got me into this&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gray-mare.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gray-mare.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"gray-mare\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first thing would be to halter the horse, but Meagan had nothing to use for restraint. \u201cI am not letting you get away,\u201d she whispered to the mare. \u201cI\u2019d never catch you again.\u201d She was positioned on the horse\u2019s right side, of course\u2014the wrong side to mount. Meagan\u2019s next move was bound to be unwelcome.<\/p>\n<p>Mounting in deep water is an old riding trick, or so Meagan had read. The idea sounded logical and, if nothing else, water was a softer landing than dirt. She took a breath, hitched up her nightgown and gently closed her hands around the horse\u2019s knotted mane.<\/p>\n<p>The first broodmare waded out of the water with a snort. This was the signal to depart and each horse ducked its head for a last drink. The little gray horse started back to shore, but before the animal could swing away Meagan pulled herself up and threw her leg over. She clasped her feet around the little horse\u2019s belly and waited for the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>It came quickly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Excerpted from <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 pg. 97)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Book II: The Golden Spark<\/strong><\/em> will be published Fall 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/chap1.html\">the 1st Chapter<\/a> online!<\/h4>\n<p><small>Copyright \u00a9 2008 John Royce<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; if nothing else, water was a softer landing than dirt. She took a breath, hitched up her nightgown and gently closed her hands around the horse\u2019s knotted mane. &#8211; <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em> (excerpt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,154],"tags":[186,70,165,162,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14947,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}