{"id":6547,"date":"2020-08-18T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T22:07:54","slug":"back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on Track!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A month of back pain, back bones out of place is over.  Fancy is &#8220;back&#8221; on track of my dream goal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely no one can ever forget my passion to do flying lead changes to pass the requirements of the Parelli Level 4 Tests!  Fancy has given me conditions and I have failed all spring and summer to meet her requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been secretly teaching me another requirement and I recently became aware of the last condition.  Fancy has been trying to do a flying change before I asked.  Her head is turned in the opposite direction of the way I want to do the flying change.  When I turn her head and my body asks for the flying change, there is nothing there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancy has been trying to tell me that her head needs to continue on the original path plus I must obey all the other conditions.  Tonight, I did that and Fancy gave me several flying lead changes in both directions.  Fancy was treated like royalty tonight.  I dismounted after getting three flying changes, loosened the saddle and petted her every five to ten steps back to the barn.  She got around twenty treats and much more adoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think she was over her back pain yet and needed more canter practice to get the legs going correctly.  Well, she proved me wrong.  She was trying to do a flying change, so I said, &#8220;What the heck!&#8221;  Let&#8217;s give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She did it!  I am beyond happy, ecstatic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month of back pain, back bones out of place is over. Fancy is &#8220;back&#8221; on track of my dream goal! Surely no one can ever forget my passion to do flying lead changes to pass the requirements of the Parelli Level 4 Tests! Fancy has given me conditions and I have failed all spring and summer to meet her requirements. She has been secretly teaching me another requirement and I recently became aware of the last condition. Fancy has been trying to do a flying change before I asked.&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":[114,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-flying-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","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=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}