{"id":23,"date":"2010-08-10T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/08\/10\/old-roman\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:02:04","slug":"old-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/08\/10\/old-roman\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Roman3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Roman3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the very first horse I rode in lessons &#8211; and I have the photo to prove it!  *laugh*<\/p>\n<p>Roman was the old trooper of the barn.  He was 26 when I started taking lessons, probably 28 when we left; they told me he was an Appaloosa, although I don&#8217;t recall them ever specifying his <i>color<\/i>.  (Looking at the photos&#8230; I&#8217;m going to take a wild guess and say his base coat was a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail, maybe?  With a blaze&#8230; and probably a varnish Appy at that, given the indeterminate color&#8230;)  I never did learn his registered OR show names.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Roman4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Roman4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>They let him roam loose around the barn and paddocks &#8211; he was often found back in the back near the pasture where the babies were &#8211; and he&#8217;d reliably turn up in his stall for his grain.  He was a terrible chow hound, and apparently had an iron stomach; I <i>heard<\/i>, although I can&#8217;t verify, that he got into and ate most of a 10-lb bag of &#8220;wormer feed&#8221; (feed-though deworming, I&#8217;m guessing) and was perfectly fine.  I know he was always up for apples, carrots, pretzels, and anything else us kids could think to feed to him.<\/p>\n<p>Five or six years after we&#8217;d left that barn, we heard through the grapevine that he&#8217;d been retired to &#8220;the farm&#8221; (somewhere in south Texas) finally.  I hope he ended his life well; he was a sweet old horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the very first horse I rode in lessons &#8211; and I have the photo to prove it!  *laugh*Roman was the old trooper of the barn.  He was 26 when I started taking lessons, probably 28 when we left; they told me he was an Appaloosa, although I don&#8217;t r&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-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}