{"id":683,"date":"2004-03-13T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/03\/13\/water-play\/"},"modified":"2004-03-13T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T22:29:50","slug":"water-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/03\/13\/water-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Water play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"waterplay.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/waterplay.jpg?resize=348%2C432\" width=\"348\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOn warmish days, Hap likes to play in water.  Since it was a nice day, I put him in the horse trailer and took him to my trainer&#8217;s today so I could ride him briefly in the arena.  She has a visitor&#8217;s paddock out front near her arena. Hap must have emptied twenty gallons from the stock tank in ten minutes.  On a really hot day, he can empty a stock tank: using his head as a shovel to scoop water on his chest and front legs.  I&#8217;ve even seen him totally submerge his head and part of his neck in the water.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUnfortunately, after I got him there, I discovered he had a rather nasty cough.  I seem to remember similar coughs this time of year during previous years, so it may be an allergy.  However, even if it is a cold, equine colds are like human colds:  they tend to be self-limiting, though very infectious.<\/p>\n<p>I did ride him briefly, and learned that he still considers himself a broke horse (as much as he ever did) and that he doesn&#8217;t mind working in the arena without shoes.  He has been barefoot for two months now, and although I haven&#8217;t seen him have any problems here at home, I wanted to know if he would be okay with my weight on his back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On warmish days, Hap likes to play in water. Since it was a nice day, I put him in the horse trailer and took him to my trainer&#8217;s today so I could ride him briefly in the arena. She has a visitor&#8217;s paddock out front near her arena. Hap must have emptied twenty gallons from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/03\/13\/water-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}