{"id":1926,"date":"2012-04-27T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2012-04-27T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:40:10","slug":"everything-i-hate-about-horse-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/everything-i-hate-about-horse-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything I Hate about Horse Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I hate about horse shows is the making-the-horse- pretty part.\u00a0 My love of grooming, clipping and bathing is a triple infinity negative.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky Star is extremely protective about his ears.\u00a0 Clipping his ears just didn&#8217;t work well with the clipper.\u00a0 We had an evening long disagreement about the scissor noise next to his ear.\u00a0 Guess what Lucky Star and I are going to do during the May 2012\u00a0week-long <a href=\"http:\/\/forthehorse.org\">Natural Solutions Horse Camp <\/a>with Tony and Jenny Vaught.\u00a0 Yep, we&#8217;ll be working on clipping his ears, using natural solutions to get him over his fear and hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Our evening long\u00a0 clipping disagreement made\u00a0Lucky Star\u00a0a little sweaty.\u00a0 He enjoyed the &#8220;mist&#8221; setting on my new hose head. What the heck is the real name of hose head&#8230;the shower thing.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Trotter Performance classes have horses with beautiful ribbons.\u00a0 I hate the attaching the ribbon to the horse part.\u00a0\u00a0I had to braid a little portion of his mane so I can attach a ribbon to it. That&#8217;s when the boating people decided to get out and load their boat on their trailer.\u00a0 That was a distraction and Lucky Star wanted to move his head when both my hands were trying to braid.\u00a0 I can do a fine job of dismal braiding when the horse stands still.\u00a0 Lucky Star&#8217;s show braid is less than dismal.\u00a0 What is a word that means &#8220;less than dismal&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Friday evening and I have yet to wash and oil\u00a0the saddle and bridle.\u00a0 Manual heavy labor. yecchy greasy hands.<\/p>\n<p>Being in the horse show is fun. Preparing the horse&#8217;s development for the horse shows is what I love most to do.\u00a0 I just hate the pretty part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I hate about horse shows is the making-the-horse- pretty part.\u00a0 My love of grooming, clipping and bathing is a triple infinity negative. Lucky Star is extremely protective about his ears.\u00a0 Clipping his ears just didn&#8217;t work well with the clipper.\u00a0 We had an evening long disagreement about the scissor noise next to his ear.\u00a0 Guess what Lucky Star and I are going to do during the May 2012\u00a0week-long Natural Solutions Horse Camp with Tony and Jenny Vaught.\u00a0 Yep, we&#8217;ll be working on clipping his ears, using natural solutions to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-franks-lucky-star","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}