{"id":718,"date":"2004-04-22T06:52:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/04\/22\/haps-eye\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T06:52:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T12:52:59","slug":"haps-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/04\/22\/haps-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Hap&#8217;s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hapseye20040420.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/hapseye20040420.jpg?resize=432%2C288\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe first few years I had Hap, this large soft eye made me think many times:  <q>Funny, he doesn&#8217;t look like maniac.<\/q>  One year, I took him to State Fair and put a sign on his stall door with large letters:  <q>Do not pet this horse.  He bites!<\/q>  I still found parents holding their children up to pet him.  (Mind you:  Hap&#8217;s biting was the affectionate nibble he would do to another horse, but I don&#8217;t think it matters when dealing with an 1100 pound critter.)  The fact that so many people thought they were in a petting zoo is one reason I never took Hap back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first few years I had Hap, this large soft eye made me think many times: Funny, he doesn&#8217;t look like maniac. One year, I took him to State Fair and put a sign on his stall door with large letters: Do not pet this horse. He bites! I still found parents holding their children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/04\/22\/haps-eye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hap&#8217;s Eye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}