{"id":40,"date":"2009-04-01T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:21:45","slug":"how-did-you-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/how-did-you-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its the question I get over and over again&#8230;.<strong>How did you teach your horse that?<\/strong> Sometimes I think my ponies are exceptional and that they learn simply by watching &#8211; which may be true to some extent &#8211; but the truth is my horses learn because they trust me, and they want to learn.<\/p>\n<p>It may help if I start from <strong>the very beginning<\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It all started in 2003 when I was given Chincoteague Minnow as a free lease to be used as my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountedgames.org\" target=\"_blank\">mounted games <\/a>pony (as I had just retired my 20 something Arab\/Welsh cross).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/about\/how-it-began\/\" target=\"_self\">Keep reading<\/a> here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its the question I get over and over again&#8230;.How did you teach your horse that? Sometimes I think my ponies are exceptional and that they learn simply by watching &#8211; which may be true to some extent &#8211; but the truth is my horses learn because they trust me, and they want to learn. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[43,948,115,261,379,381,406,543,545,546],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks","tag-assateague","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-horse","tag-painting","tag-painting-horse","tag-pony","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->