{"id":2786,"date":"2019-06-16T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T02:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T02:31:52","slug":"new-horse-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"New Horse, New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove up to North Texas yesterday to see a thirteen year old flea-bitten grey Arabian gelding.\u00a0 This is the picture I had seen before going up to see him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Vanguard-Prestige.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Vanguard-Prestige.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>Vanguard Prestige<\/p>\n<p>He looks darker in this picture because he was wet&#8211;sweaty-wet.<\/p>\n<p>Today, after a long trailer ride, he arrived shortly after I got home and looked like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-6-16-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-6-16-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-6-16-19.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-6-16-19-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For another view of the different in width of forehead and mouth, here&#8217;s the equine copycatting a giraffe in eating leaves off a tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-as-giraffe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-as-giraffe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-as-giraffe.jpg 301w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-as-giraffe-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-giraffe-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-giraffe-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-giraffe-detail.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Prestige-giraffe-detail-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove up to North Texas yesterday to see a thirteen year old flea-bitten grey Arabian gelding.\u00a0 This is the picture I had seen before going up to see him: Vanguard Prestige He looks darker in this picture because he was wet&#8211;sweaty-wet. Today, after a long trailer ride, he arrived shortly after I got home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}