{"id":1931,"date":"2011-06-17T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-06-17T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:00:37","slug":"smile-for-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/smile-for-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile for the Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boomerang is unbelievably smart. He picks up things so fast &#8211; and he LOVES inventing his own tricks. Like this one:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1932\" title=\"boomer smiling\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/img_7981_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>now it might just look like I cued him to smile &#8211; but in fact I have not.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1933\" title=\"boomer smiling\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/img_7986_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boomer has decided that it&#8217;s very important to put a beaming smile on your face everytime someone picks up a camera to take your picture. It&#8217;s quite cute actually &#8211; but I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;ll never take a &#8220;normal&#8221; photo again. But that&#8217;s ok&#8230;it sorta makes me giggle.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1934\" title=\"boomer lay down\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/img_7991_2.jpg?w=333&#038;resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boomer has also picked up a subtle cue I&#8217;ve been giving him to &#8220;roll over&#8221; when he lays down.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1935\" title=\"boomer roll\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/img_7992_2.jpg?w=333&#038;resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So with a tilt of my head onto his side he goes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend Boomerang is headed to his first gymkhana event (along with Blitz and my sister&#8217;s mare Jet). Barrel racing here we come! In english tack of course, because we have to be different like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boomerang is unbelievably smart. He picks up things so fast &#8211; and he LOVES inventing his own tricks. Like this one: now it might just look like I cued him to smile &#8211; but in fact I have not. Boomer has decided that it&#8217;s very important to put a beaming smile on your face everytime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"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":[10],"tags":[43,65,107,108,948,115,125,204,244,261,273,292,299,332,382,406,451,478,537,543,545,546,572],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks","tag-assateague","tag-bitless-bridle","tag-chesapeake-boomerang","tag-chesapeake-lightning","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-farm","tag-gymkhana","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-lay-down","tag-misty-of-chincoteague","tag-painting-pony","tag-pony","tag-roll-over","tag-smile","tag-training","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony","tag-western"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-v9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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