{"id":2439,"date":"2011-12-28T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2011-12-27T23:03:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T04:03:01","slug":"the-ponies-celebrate-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/the-ponies-celebrate-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ponies Celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas time can get pretty hectic for me. My custom frame shop<\/a> in town starts booming with Christmas orders right after Thanksgiving and most nights when I leave work in the dark I struggle to keep my eyes open as I move horses and hay bales out on the farm. The ponies start to see my comings and goings as a blur while I make promises to get back to riding and training them after the Holidays.<\/p>\n

But, despite how busy this time of year can get I never forget my boys when Christmas rolls around.<\/p>\n

This year I headed out to the farm first thing Christmas morning with Ammo the Dachshund<\/a> and my husband in tow. Ammo brought along a special treat for all of his favorite ponies.<\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

And he was sweet enough to taste test the first few bites.<\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

Not only did Ammo bring the boys treats, but it looked like Santa had visited the farm too.<\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

With Ammo supervising, Minnow set to work opening his special gift from Santa.<\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

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Boomerang had a bit more trouble grasping the concept of present opening, but luckily little Ammo is a pro at opening gifts and was more than happy to help.<\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

$\"Christmas$ <\/p>\n

All the horses received Himalayan Salt Blocks from Santa! But most importantly I think the ponies are thrilled that the Holiday rush is over, and we can get back to trick training! We’ve got lots of work to do to prepare for the Horse World Expo<\/a> and it’s time to start thinking of new tricks!<\/p>\n

Make sure you check out Ammo’s blog<\/a> to see what Santa brought him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas time can get pretty hectic for me. My custom frame shop in town starts booming with Christmas orders right after Thanksgiving and most nights when I leave work in the dark I struggle to keep my eyes open as I move horses and hay bales out on the farm. The ponies start to see […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[18,33,43,107,108,948,114,115,119,156,164,204,229,259,261,273,292,379,382,406,590,597,537,543,545,546,598],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","tag-18","tag-ammo","tag-assateague","tag-chesapeake-boomerang","tag-chesapeake-lightning","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-minnow","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-christmas","tag-dachshund","tag-dog","tag-farm","tag-gift","tag-holiday","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-painting","tag-painting-pony","tag-pony","tag-present","tag-santa","tag-training","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony","tag-xmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}