{"id":8213,"date":"2014-07-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2014-07-16T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:10:41","slug":"swimming-the-ponies-at-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/swimming-the-ponies-at-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming the Ponies at the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend we decided to take the ponies to the lake for a swim.<\/p>\n

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

We brought along Blitz, Minnow, and Ammo the Dachshund<\/a> as well as the ponies’ barn mate Lilah (for her very first swim).<\/p>\n

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

Minnow’s no stranger to the lake, and considering that he was born on an island I think it’s pretty safe to say he loves the water. It felt good to take him on an adventure again as he hasn’t been anywhere since I think maybe pony penning last summer! (that’s far too long!)<\/p>\n

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

Blitz is a bit more cautious about the water, and while he thoroughly enjoyed wading out pretty deep we still have yet to see him actually swim! (some day….)<\/p>\n

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

But that didn’t stop him from having fun in the lake!<\/p>\n

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

Minnow on the other hand graciously gave EVERYONE a swim, even Ammo hopped aboard for his very first swim session on the back of a pony.<\/p>\n

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

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/swimming-the-ponies-at-the-lake\/ponyswim2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ponyswim2.jpg?fit=420%2C560&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"420,560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1405257924","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.000315955766193","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"Swimming the Ponies at the Lake \/\/ Painting Pony\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ponyswim2.jpg?fit=420%2C560&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ponyswim2.jpg?resize=420%2C560\" alt=\"Swimming the Ponies at the Lake \/\/ Painting Pony\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\nI can’t wait to take the ponies back to the lake again soon. It’s the absolute best way to keep cool on a hot summer day!<\/p>\nP.S. Thanks to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/my-life-naturally.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Life, Naturally<\/a> for providing some of the photos for this post!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend we decided to take the ponies to the lake for a swim. We brought along Blitz, Minnow, and Ammo the Dachshund as well as the ponies’ barn mate Lilah (for her very first swim). Minnow’s no stranger to the lake, and considering that he was born on an island I think it’s […]<\/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":"Swimming the Ponies at the Lake - the perfect way to beat the heat on a hot summer day! http:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-28t","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,43,65,108,948,114,115,125,156,164,177,261,866,292,293,867,868,499,512,513,560,563],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","tag-ammo","tag-assateague","tag-bitless-bridle","tag-chesapeake-lightning","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-minnow","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-dachshund","tag-dog","tag-dr-cooks-bitless-bridle","tag-horse","tag-hot","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-lake","tag-my-life","tag-naturally","tag-summer","tag-swim","tag-swimming","tag-video","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-28t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","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=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}