{"id":37,"date":"2010-11-15T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/11\/15\/fun-book\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:25:19","slug":"fun-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/11\/15\/fun-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Book-Saddlery-Tack\/dp\/0806988959\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1289833986&amp;sr=8-1\">The New Book of Saddlery and Tack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a terrible horse book collector; if it has a breed I don&#8217;t recognize from one of my other books, or if it has a section on bits or tack or something that I particularly like, I&#8217;ll end up bringing it home.  (I have <i>lots<\/i> of horse books.)<\/p>\n<p>This was one of those books &#8211; I actually found it in a Tandy Leather store.  And it&#8217;s <i>really, really<\/i> neat.  This is the first book I&#8217;ve encountered that actually has a significant section on harnesses and how to put them on, including pleasure driving tack as well as racing and farm work harness.  It also has a section on fitting side-saddles, fitting bridles and martingales, racing tack, how saddles are made, how bits are made, different types of bits, different types of saddles, historical saddles, saddles in museums&#8230;  The Western section is a little light compared to the rest, but it&#8217;s not <i>too<\/i> bad &#8211; I&#8217;ve definitely seen worse.<\/p>\n<p>The last chapter is more general horsemanship like caring for tack and stable management, and the first few pages are the standard &#8220;history of the horse and man&#8221; stuff, but the rest of the book is just <i>tack<\/i>.  It&#8217;s so much fun to look through, even if you&#8217;re just looking at the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Book of Saddlery and Tack<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a terrible horse book collector; if it has a breed I don&#8217;t recognize from one of my other books, or if it has a section on bits or tack or something that I particularly like, I&#8217;ll end up bringing it home.  (I have&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":[26],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}