{"id":1345,"date":"2006-06-18T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2006\/06\/18\/cross-country\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T00:36:10","slug":"cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2006\/06\/18\/cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went to watch some friends ride cross country at a pace held to raise funds for the Bijou Springs Hunt.  I don&#8217;t usually like to post more than one photo a day, but didn&#8217;t want to leave anyone out. (Unfortunately, there was only one place I could get a clear shot of them jumping.)  They rode as a threesome, and came in third in their division.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2006\/20060618sassy.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sassy, an eighteen year old Thoroughbred mare who belongs to my trainer, was ridden by A.  Sassy led most of the way during the pace.  Most of Sassy&#8217;s experience has been in the hunter\/jumper ring, so cross country is a new experience for her.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2006\/20060618major.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Major, a fifteen year old Percheron cross, was ridden by his owner, ME.  As the most experienced cross country horse, Major stayed behind unless required to give the less experienced horses a lead over the jump.  (Major is my favorite horse that I don&#8217;t actually own.) <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2006\/20060618holly.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holly, a seven year old mustang cross, was ridden by her owner, L.  Holly doesn&#8217;t have much experience doing cross country, but seems to think a five minute trip over jumps a much better deal than eight hour long trail rides through the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went to watch some friends ride cross country at a pace held to raise funds for the Bijou Springs Hunt. I don&#8217;t usually like to post more than one photo a day, but didn&#8217;t want to leave anyone out. (Unfortunately, there was only one place I could get a clear shot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2006\/06\/18\/cross-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cross Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-lH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}