{"id":9067,"date":"2013-05-17T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:52:57","slug":"hoofprints-by-jessie-haas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2013\/05\/hoofprints-by-jessie-haas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoofprints by Jessie Haas: “Something is at Stake…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toy Horse from 16 centuries ago (Athens, 4th Century AD) – \u00a9 By Tilemahos Efthimiadis<\/a> \/ Flickr \/ CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n
\u201cI want you to know that history is not what you\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n

You have been asked to pledge allegiance to certain facts…\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd most of all history, because when someone is telling you
\nHow you got here, and why, and sometimes when,
\nSomething is at stake, for you hearing, for them telling.\u201d<\/p>\n

–excerpted from<\/em> Hoofprints<\/strong> by Jessie Haas<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More than being a collection of poems, Hoofprints <\/strong> by Jessie Haas<\/em><\/a> is a journey through human history told in short evocative sketches of each era. <\/p>\n

The poems are of different lengths and structures, moods, style and viewpoint–some are more emotional, others appeal to the senses, or the mind. Each poem ends with the exact dated period it was inspired by, so the reader can relate to the history of each era.<\/p>\n

Several lines in the book which seem simply to echo the human condition have been called political, which seems an unhappy response. In my view the book treads honest paths which incidentally travel forgotten roads of human history.<\/p>\n

Learning more, we find out history can be different than what we believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want you to know that history is not what you\u2019ve been told. You have been asked to pledge allegiance to certain facts…\u201d … \u201cAnd most of all history, because when someone is telling you How you got here, and why, and sometimes when, Something is at stake, for you hearing, for them telling.\u201d –excerpted … Continue reading “Hoofprints by Jessie Haas: “Something is at Stake…””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174],"tags":[346,349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067"}],"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=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}