{"id":426,"date":"2009-07-14T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-07-14T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:01:33","slug":"minnow-gets-ready-for-the-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/minnow-gets-ready-for-the-beach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnow gets ready for the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my week-long beach vacation I picked up a few things for Minnow. One of my purchases was a beach bucket and shovel. I really wasn&#8217;t sure what I would teach Minnow with this &#8220;prop&#8221; but I figured it couldn&#8217;t hurt to try something. So I started off with the obvious &#8211; teaching Minnow to carry around the bucket. Then I decided this was just too boring. So I then proceeded to teach him to pick up the shovel &#8211; which evolved into asking him to &#8220;scoop&#8221; sand. Below you can see the video of our near-final result. Took him about 5 minutes to master this skill. He&#8217;s amazingly fast at learning new skills &#8211; he continues to impress me with each new task.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fhtv7INiAw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Minnow even performed this latest trick during our newest skit for a group of campers yesterday (and a newspaper photographer!). But you will just have to wait until to tomorrow to watch that video! And within the next few days I hope to be posting up a new newspaper article written about the famous Minnow of Chincoteague! So be sure to check back everyday &#8211; or else you might miss something exciting!<\/p>\n<p>-KD<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponypaintings.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ponypaintings.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my week-long beach vacation I picked up a few things for Minnow. One of my purchases was a beach bucket and shovel. I really wasn&#8217;t sure what I would teach Minnow with this &#8220;prop&#8221; but I figured it couldn&#8217;t hurt to try something. So I started off with the obvious &#8211; teaching Minnow to [&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":[43,948,115,125,261,292,379,381,406,537,543,545,546],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks","tag-assateague","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-horse","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-painting","tag-painting-horse","tag-pony","tag-training","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-6S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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