{"id":5312,"date":"2019-01-04T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T03:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2019-01-04T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:05:26","slug":"day-four-of-question-box-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/day-four-of-question-box-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Four of Question Box Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We ended our Question Box Pattern ride today \u00a0by riding bridleless. \u00a0I took off her bridle and we ventured around the circles. \u00a0Fancy is a go, and go faster horse. \u00a0I\u2019ve been dreading this. \u00a0There is a maneuver that can be used to slow down a horse if you have a Horsemanship stick. \u00a0When they speed up and go too fast, you direct their head into the wall. \u00a0Arena walls are very handy. \u00a0We ended with a nice full lap at a flat foot walk.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it worked. \u00a0It worked better than me tugging on a rein to get her to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>I won the day and lived to tell about it!<\/p>\n<p>Ride #2 Bridleless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ended our Question Box Pattern ride today \u00a0by riding bridleless. \u00a0I took off her bridle and we ventured around the circles. \u00a0Fancy is a go, and go faster horse. \u00a0I\u2019ve been dreading this. \u00a0There is a maneuver that can be used to slow down a horse if you have a Horsemanship stick. \u00a0When they speed up and go too fast, you direct their head into the wall. \u00a0Arena walls are very handy. \u00a0We ended with a nice full lap at a flat foot walk. Yes, it worked. \u00a0It worked&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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}