{"id":3320,"date":"2010-09-01T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:53:00","slug":"story-background-the-lesson-of-the-prehistoric-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/09\/story-background-the-lesson-of-the-prehistoric-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and the Prehistoric Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #ededed; font-size: .9em; padding: 1em; margin:20px 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-1-eclipsed-by-shadow\/\"><strong><em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em><\/strong><\/a> begins the story of an accidental journey though history by a young horse-enthusiast named Meagan. The first place she goes (though unknown to her) is prehistoric times \u2026 where she finds a band of wild horses.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/prehistoric-foal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3345\" title=\"prehistoric-foal\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/prehistoric-foal-125x150.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:10px;\">Evidence exists of man\u2019s earliest relations with horses over 20,000 years ago and, though details of prehistoric times can be murky, something not in reasonable dispute is that prehistoric man hunted horses long before domesticating them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:10px;\">Horses haven\u2019t changed much since &#8216;caveman&#8217; times; equines are an ancient species that retain their natural instincts. Cavemen <em>could<\/em> have harnessed the horses available \u2026 yet it took tens of thousands of years to even begin learning how to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:10px;\">Taming horses required a strikingly new attitude, something quite beyond the &#8216;kill eat food&#8217; pattern prehistoric humans lived by. Once early man did change its outlook on horses, a whole world of possibilities opened that were unimaginable before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:10px;\">The lesson of prehistoric horses is that the world can have potential that exceeds not our grasp &#8230; so much as our attitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advancement of civilization has required many changes in attitude in mankind, perhaps none more revolutionary than the idea that horses might be our partners. The lesson of prehistoric horses is that our world has possibilities that exceed not our grasp &#8230; but our attitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,142,154],"tags":[186,185,116,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15053,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}