{"id":364,"date":"2015-07-20T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerpieces.net\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2022-04-30T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:33:26","slug":"a-friend-by-my-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/a-friend-by-my-side\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend By My Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_411\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-and-stormy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-and-stormy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"My Fabulous Stormy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-and-stormy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-and-stormy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Fabulous Stormy<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\" data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$text0:0\">I never had much training and came to horses late in my life. I&#8217;m not much of a leader, I love my horses, perhaps a little too much, because I cave to their desires more than I should, But I have fun, and I&#8217;m pretty certain they love me too &#8211; lots! <\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1ra.1:5:1:$comment491288981024320_491702840982934:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text0:0\">When I play the &#8220;stick-to-me&#8221; game I let my horse choose where exactly he or she will stick and usually it&#8217;s at my side. This suits me because I&#8217;ve had my big boy follow me in the past and I don&#8217;t like having to have eyes in the back of my head, and I would need them with him because if he comes too close he can tread on my heals. And that hurts! My fault, my bubble! I hear you all cry! Maybe so. But why take the risk when we can be real buddies side by side. Perhaps I&#8217;m lucky, my big boy spooks away from me, so far, every time. A ton of horse. I think my love and affection means everything to him, and not losing sight of me in moments of panic is his way of loving me back.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never had much training and came to horses late in my life. I&#8217;m not much of a leader, I love my horses, perhaps a little too much, because I cave to their desires more than I should, But I have fun, and I&#8217;m pretty certain they love me too &#8211; lots! When I play&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}