{"id":2308,"date":"2011-10-04T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:23:59","slug":"my-amazing-flower-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/my-amazing-flower-pony\/","title":{"rendered":"My Amazing Flower Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 4th, 2008 is a date that holds much significance for me. Not only is it the anniversary of my wedding to my high school sweetheart, but it is also the anniversary of when I became the official owner of Minnow, so I planned a good celebration, with food and great decoration using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cvlinens.com\/collections\/tablecloths\">party supply tablecloth<\/a> for this event.<\/p>\n<p>Minnow had been living with me since 2003, when his then owners had decided to lease him out to me to use as a riding mount. In those 5 years I got to know an amazing pony that has since changed the entire course of my life. I knew he was one of those &#8220;once in a lifetime&#8221; ponies &#8211; and in the back of my mind I always feared that someday he would leave me.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"chincoteague pony at wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/20081004-_dsc4844-213.jpg?w=510&#038;resize=510%2C338\" alt=\"chincoteague pony at wedding\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When he was diagnosed with Ringbone in March of 2008 and his competition career came to an abrupt end, it became evident that the &#8220;backyard tricks&#8221; I had taught him were now more important than ever. Not only were they a way for us to continue to interact with each other, but they became something even more special that we shared together.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that Minnow HAD to be at my wedding, he was such an important part of my life, and when my mom jokingly suggested he should be the flower girl, I set out to train him how to toss petals out of a basket. Tossing the petals proved to be the easy part, it was performing in front of a crowd of wedding guests that couldn&#8217;t be practiced.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2314\" title=\"chincoteague pony at wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/20081004-_dsc4839-210.jpg?w=510&#038;resize=510%2C338\" alt=\"chincoteague pony at wedding\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Until today, I have yet to share the &#8220;real&#8221; wedding video of Minnow wowing my guests (and me). To FINALLY get it up for viewing I had to film it off of my computer and onto my iphone &#8211; so granted the quality isn&#8217;t the best. But, I&#8217;m proud to share with everyone, the greatest FLOWER <del>GIRL<\/del> PONY there ever was!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ycpIOGXWgmQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Not only was Minnow simply amazing, but he performed for my sister (and not me). Minnow has always been quite sensitive, and most times will only perform tricks for me &#8211; after we built a relationship of trust over many years. So for him to perform for my sister (who never works with him) and in front of a large crowd of people, it was an amazing accomplishment for him.<\/p>\n<p>When I returned home from my honeymoon in Nicaragua I opened a very special card from Minnow&#8217;s owners. Their gift to me on my wedding day was Minnow! To know that he would be mine forever was one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me. I know that I&#8217;m truly blessed to have him in my life and I&#8217;m so thankful that we were able to find eachother.<\/p>\n<p>So Happy Anniversary Minnow! I look forward to many more adventures with you, as I know we are just getting started!<\/p>\n<p>And Happy 3 year Anniversary to my wonderful husband :), thanks for accepting my love for the ponies (and Ammo).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"chincoteague minnow, flower pony\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/20081004-_dsc4851-215.jpg?w=510&#038;resize=486%2C320\" alt=\"chincoteague minnow, flower pony\" width=\"486\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 4th, 2008 is a date that holds much significance for me. Not only is it the anniversary of my wedding to my high school sweetheart, but it is also the anniversary of when I became the official owner of Minnow, so I planned a good celebration, with food and great decoration using a party [&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":[4,11,6,9],"tags":[37,43,84,948,114,115,125,214,215,241,261,292,332,375,382,406,537,543,545,546,560,568],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chincoteague","category-clicker-training-inspiration","category-farm-life","category-performances","tag-anniversary","tag-assateague","tag-bride","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-minnow","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-flower-girl","tag-flower-pony","tag-groom","tag-horse","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-misty-of-chincoteague","tag-owner","tag-painting-pony","tag-pony","tag-training","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony","tag-video","tag-wedding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-Be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35409,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/35409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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