{"id":24,"date":"2010-08-12T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/08\/12\/silky\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:33:24","slug":"silky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/08\/12\/silky\/","title":{"rendered":"Silky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More old pictures &#8211; and I only have one of this pony that I was able to crop me out of, so please excuse my pre-teen awkwardness.  And those <i>glasses<\/i>.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_rolleyes.gif\" alt=\":roll:\" class=\"middle\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Silky1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Silky1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Silky was the step up from old Roman.  No idea what she was, if she was registered, if she had a show name, how old she was &#8211; nothing.  I do know that lesson pony wasn&#8217;t her favorite job; she <i>hated<\/i> kids.  She was a confirmed nipper; I clearly remember her taking the fuzz off the sweater of a girl one day.  I also clearly remember her trying to take a chunk out of my instructor&#8217;s butt when she was tightening the girth and not paying attention to the pony&#8217;s head.  I don&#8217;t remember her ever trying to bite me, though, and my mother confirms &#8211; of the kids out there, I seemed to be the only one she&#8217;d tolerate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Silky2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/Silky2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>She was a good jumper, and a pretty safe ride once you got on, as long as you didn&#8217;t mind dragging her out of the clumps of grass on the sides of the arena every time you passed at a walk.  This is the pony I rode when we did an off-site dressage show and I got 2nd place despite having <i>no clue<\/i> what a diagonal was.  I seem to recall that braiding her perma-mohawk was a pain in the butt&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/SilkyPecosRoman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/media\/blogs\/horses\/Summertree\/SilkyPecosRoman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This was 1992-1994.  In 2006, I ended up back at the same barn under new management and found out that they had &#8220;inherited&#8221; Silky when they took over the site.  Her nipping had turned into biting, and was extreme enough that the previous owner said the little mare had broken her arm.  After a couple of attempts to teach lessons with her, she was deemed a risk to the health of the students and shipped off to be sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More old pictures &#8211; and I don&#8217;t have a single one that doesn&#8217;t have a very young me in it<\/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-24","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\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}