{"id":3350,"date":"2010-09-03T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:18","slug":"35-a-horses-greatest-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/09\/35-a-horses-greatest-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"#35- A horse&#8217;s greatest fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In which mounting a wild horse has the expected result&#8230;  <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA horse\u2019s greatest fear is a predator on its back, the only place unreachable by a bite or kick. The frantic mare hunched herself and heaved in the water as the other animals darted and fled, but Meagan was a good rider and the water slowed the mare\u2019s efforts. \u201cEasy girl,\u201d she urged the mare as they thrashed in circles, \u201cI\u2019m not going to hurt you.\u201d<br \/>\nThe other horses splashed through the shallows and kicked back in irritation once they gained hard ground. Reforming into a line, the band trotted away and began receding into the distance.<br \/>\nChurning in panic, the mare gradually realized her attacker was not attacking. She was a practical soul, and if her passenger was causing no injury there was no reason to be left behind. The water made a surging sound as the mare galloped from the riverbed after the others.<\/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. 98)<\/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>A horse\u2019s greatest fear is a predator on its back, the only place unreachable by a bite or kick. &#8211; <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":[118,238,70,165,191,185,162,119,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350"}],"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=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}