{"id":2066,"date":"2016-09-20T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:56:28","slug":"may-the-horse-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2016\/09\/may-the-horse-be-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"May the Horse Be With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2067 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_4453\" width=\"259\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453-138x138.jpg 138w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4453.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I have, for many years, volunteered at a therapeutic riding facility where people with special cognitive, physical, and emotional needs ride horses to improve their development, so I have spent hundreds of hours with horses. I admire their beauty, their grace, and their strength, and I know the joy of riding and communing with nature on a trail. But today was different, a new experience, an adventure. I was riding a horse \u2013 in Costa Rica! My horse\u2019s name exceeded my linguistic abilities, so I called him Mango. We bonded, traveled along the path together with our group, and stopped for a photo op. We rode to the top of a mountain, where we could see for miles. I am pretty sure I will remember this day for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I have, for many years, volunteered at a therapeutic riding facility where people with special cognitive, physical, and emotional needs ride horses to improve their development, so I have spent hundreds of hours with horses. I admire their beauty, their grace, and their strength, and I know the joy of riding and communing with nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-biology","category-costa-rica","category-maymester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}