{"id":948,"date":"2007-03-18T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-10-08T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T03:14:29","slug":"sue-how-do-you-scoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/sue-how-do-you-scoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue &#8211; How Do You Scoot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sue &#8211; How Do You Scoot Foward So Fast?<\/div>\n<div>I rode Sue today and we did really well. I try to keep one hand on the horn at all times to prevent me from jerking back on the reins if she bolts forward. She&#8217;s doing so good now that she runs out of gas and tries to stop.<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s when she gets pretty relaxed. There&#8217;s a &#8220;short&#8221; horse inside her. Today, she tried to stop as we were doing a clover leaf pattern. I picked up the hand that is normally kept on the horn and slapped my thigh. She ignored that, so I lifted my hand up higher to slap my thigh and she took off. It occured to me as my upper body snapped back to her tail that perhaps I should keep hanging on with that hand and slap my thigh with the other hand.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I pulled back on the reins to get my balance back to the center of the horse&#8230;and she stopped.<\/p>\n<div>THANK GOODNESS! The only good thing here is that she stopped and I didn&#8217;t jerk back on the reins in terror.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue &#8211; How Do You Scoot Foward So Fast? I rode Sue today and we did really well. I try to keep one hand on the horn at all times to prevent me from jerking back on the reins if she bolts forward. She&#8217;s doing so good now that she runs out of gas and tries to stop. That&#8217;s when she gets pretty relaxed. There&#8217;s a &#8220;short&#8221; horse inside her. Today, she tried to stop as we were doing a clover leaf pattern. I picked up the hand that is&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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sue-how-do-you-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}