{"id":8289,"date":"2012-07-19T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:17:57","slug":"book3-excerpt-5-the-great-horse-rafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2012\/07\/book3-excerpt-5-the-great-horse-rafi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Horse, Rafi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy is an adventure through history\u2015on horseback. Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong> (Book #3 of the Legend of the Great Horse<\/b> trilogy) was honored as a Bookwatch <\/strong>Selection for Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n

In this excerpt, Meagan has stumbled into a strange, horseless world …<\/p>\n

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“God forbid I should go to a Heaven where there are no horses.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\u2014R.B. Cunningham-Graham (1852-1936)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\u2018Rafi\u2019<\/a><\/div>\n
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Meagan ignored the<\/span> speech around her as she moved through the audience. She could see the top of a clear plexiglass wall above the heads of the crowd, but it wasn\u2019t until moving closer that she saw it encircled a platform of artificial turf\u2014upon which stood a living horse.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook!\u201d hooted a spectator. \u201cHow would you like to clean up after that, honey?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to pet it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo dear. It\u2019s cruel to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The manure had not been cleaned from underneath the horse, and there were no water buckets or haynets visible. The animal\u2019s smooth gray coat had lumps of scurf from poor grooming and his halter was fitted too tight. Meagan recognized the horse\u2019s Arabian breed by the dished profile of his diamond head and the long tail which draped from his level croup. The animal\u2019s muzzle narrowed to a mouth that could almost \u201cfit in a teacup.\u201d Dark, expressive eyes turned their faraway gaze to Meagan. The Great Horse, Rafi.<\/p>\n

The gray stallion was held between handlers in upbeat yellow shirts, standing before a small crowd of helpers wearing matching green Animal Hero<\/em> t-shirts. Meagan found herself growing angry; no one seemed to know how to care for the animal properly. She wanted to brush the horse\u2019s unkempt coat, to oil his cracked hooves.<\/p>\n

Her eyes fell to a plaque. It was a metal sign with raised letters, fixed to a podium before the plexiglass stage…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Quick Links:<\/p>\n

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\u00bb See All Excerpts<\/strong><\/a> from The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read the 1st Chapter online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Check out Reviews<\/strong> <\/a> for the trilogy.<\/p>\n

\u00bb See the Media Kit<\/strong><\/a> for more information about the trilogy.<\/p>\n

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\"The \u201cMeagan found herself growing angry; no one seemed to know how to care for the animal properly. She wanted to brush the horse\u2019s unkempt coat, to oil his cracked hooves. Her eyes fell to a plaque. It was a metal sign with raised letters, fixed to a podium before the plexiglass stage…\u201d – Into the Dark (excerpt) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323,59],"tags":[118,311,376,400,270,327,396,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289"}],"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=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15286,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}