{"id":14,"date":"2010-07-24T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/07\/24\/more-old-friends\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T08:59:24","slug":"more-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/07\/24\/more-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"More old friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/TolankaAndNigel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/TolankaAndNigel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The mare is Tolanka, who was kind of a cool pony.  (Sorry about the picture quality &#8211; scanned in photo.)  She was a bit of a shark &#8211; loved food a bit <i>too<\/i> much, y&#8217;know?  But she was perfectly OK with me climbing into the round pen with her and brushing her down while she ate and her babies investigated me.<\/p>\n<p>The little chestnut is her second foal, Nigel.  For something so picture-perfect as a baby: <\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Nigel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Nigel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He roaned out pretty quickly and ended up looking like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Nigel2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Nigel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He was always a stand-off-ish little boy, and he wasn&#8217;t much better as an adult, but I always had a soft spot for him because I had the chance to know him as a baby.<\/p>\n<p>This is his half-brother, Stuart:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Stuart2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Lauras\/Stuart2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He was much sweeter, and I did get to see him as a baby, too, although I don&#8217;t have baby photos for some reason.  He was always basically this color, although I seem to recall his blanket was a bit better-defined when he was younger than he is in this picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mare is Tolanka, who was kind of a cool pony.  (Sorry about the picture quality &#8211; scanned in photo.)  She was a bit of a shark &#8211; loved food a bit too much, y&#8217;know?  But she was perfectly OK with me climbing into the round pen with her and brushing he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-horses-i-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}