{"id":3868,"date":"2011-03-14T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:08","slug":"the-3-rules-of-the-great-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2011\/03\/the-3-rules-of-the-great-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Rules of &#8220;The Great Horse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #9f8e62; padding: 12px; font-size: .8em;\"><strong>These guidelines have been issued by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/the-bridgestone-institute\/\">The Bridgestone Institute<\/a> in the interest of protecting generally innocent but unwary victims, by assisting in the identification of any suspected \u201cGreat Horse\u201d (or &#8220;Horses&#8221;) &#8230; and specifically to rescue one such individual, Meagan Roberts, who vanished from a suburb of California in June of 2001 and is currently considered quite hopelessly lost.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Three (3) Rules of The Great Horse<\/em> (aka &#8220;3 Great Rules&#8221;) are derived from legends and (possibly apocryphal) history associated with the supernatural equine manifestation herein and heretofore described as &#8220;The Great Horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeecd8; padding: 1em;\">\n<div style=\"float: left; display: inline; color: #827b00; font: normal normal 1.5em Georgia, serif;\"><strong>Rule #1<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #827b00; font: normal normal .7em Georgia, serif;\">(alternative labeling: The Great Horse Rule Numero Uno)<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Great Horse is born at dawn.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: left; display: inline; color: #827b00; font: normal normal 1.5em Georgia, serif;\"><strong>Rule #2<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #827b00; font: normal normal .7em Georgia, serif;\">(aka the Bucephalus Rule, or bronco-loco-mojo-juju)<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">No one may ride a Great Horse<br \/>\nwithout the owner&#8217;s permission.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: left; display: inline; color: #827b00; font: normal normal 1.5em Georgia, serif;\"><strong>Rule #3<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #827b00; font: normal normal .7em Georgia, serif;\">(otherwise known as &#8220;the Bummer Clause&#8221;)<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">No one but the owner of the Great Horse<br \/>\nwill believe the legend.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>* Available information is admittedly scant, being virtually (and actually) limited to words the above, and no ascertainment of its validity or usefulness will be described.<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/the-bridgestone-institute\/\">The Bridgestone Institute<\/a> Law Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Three (3) Rules of The Great Horse<\/em> (aka &#8220;3 Great Rules&#8221;) are derived from legends and (possibly apocryphal) history associated with the supernatural equine manifestation herein and heretofore described as &#8220;The Great Horse.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,60,59],"tags":[118,332,70,400,166,119,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868"}],"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=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}