{"id":183,"date":"2004-10-31T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=183"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:19","slug":"halloween-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No tricks today, just a treat.  For the first time in three weeks, the weather was decent and Arthur had four shoes.  It&#8217;s been a problem getting both of those to occur at the same time.  So today, nothing was going to keep me out of the saddle, not even a request from the <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/rolex\/2002\/Misc\/angels2.jpg\">Champagne Run gang<\/a> to help with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champagnerun.com\/showinfo\/octoberfest.shtml\">Octoberfest<\/a>. (Actually, with the proper incentive, they might have been able to talk me out of hunting, but there&#8217;s not much chance of that).  So I knocked some of the mud off of Arthur and headed out, sadly once again skipping the slight detour to pick up Bro and his horse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The hunt really wasn&#8217;t much to write about, but that never stopped me before.  We started out fairly slowly, hanging around the edges of a couple of cornfields while the hounds worked them.  We did get one spectacular view of a coyote leading a couple of hounds across an open field until he hit the cornfield and lost them.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter dawdling around a little more, we headed off in a different direction, and managed to scare up a little more action.  At one point, the hounds were reportedly chasing 4 coyotes, but the field had gotten kind of disorganized by then, and most of us didn&#8217;t view.  I&#8217;d gotten somewhat distracted chasing a couple of foxes.<\/p>\n<p>\nOverall, it was a great day to be out.  The pace was a good one for a couple of old farts like me and Arthur to ease back in after some time off.  It would have been nice to have taken a few more jumps than the one we did, but at least Arthur and I got over that one gracefully enough to convince me that we still know what we&#8217;re doing, or at least can still fake it reasonably well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No tricks today, just a treat. For the first time in three weeks, the weather was decent and Arthur had four shoes. It&#8217;s been a problem getting both of those to occur at the same time. So today, nothing was going to keep me out of the saddle, not even a request from the Champagne&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=183\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halloween Hunt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horseplay","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-2X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}