{"id":1639,"date":"2007-06-23T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T23:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/06\/23\/good-news\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T23:50:40","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/06\/23\/good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2007\/20070622junesunset_large.jpg\"> <\/a>I&#8217;ve had more good news to add to being offered a job this week and <a href=\"http:\/\/debtorby.typepad.com\/connections\/2007\/06\/cyber-connectio.html\">meeting an old friend for the first time.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The young woman leasing Hap took him to a two-phase (dressage and cross country) and took sixth!&nbsp; Considering she is still in the process of figuring out how to put Hap (who isn&#8217;t easy) on the bit their dressage scores weren&#8217;t great, but they evidently cleaned up on cross-country.&nbsp; She has been working very hard with Hap, and I am glad to hear that they evidently had a blast on the cross-country course.&nbsp; This was particularly admirable because she had never schooled Hap over these jumps.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great lesson on Lily this morning with my trainer.&nbsp; We have a dressage arena set up temporarily, so I worked on practice tests.&nbsp; She seemed to enjoy the change from our regular routine.&nbsp; Then I went out and found a comfortable swim suit, which was far more surprising then Lily&#8217;s excellence on the flat.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And finally, in connection with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denver2008.com\/\">World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Denver<\/a> next year, I found out something this afternoon which pleased me very much.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t feel I should mention it yet, but I am so chuffed. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had more good news to add to being offered a job this week and meeting an old friend for the first time. The young woman leasing Hap took him to a two-phase (dressage and cross country) and took sixth!&nbsp; Considering she is still in the process of figuring out how to put Hap (who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/06\/23\/good-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good News<\/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":[17,5,4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-horses","category-life","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-qr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}