{"id":252,"date":"2004-02-14T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","slug":"hunting-for-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for Valentines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riding conditions today were marginal, at best.  But, since I hadn&#8217;t been on a horse since <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blog\/article.php?story=20040114204954328\" Target=\"Offsite\">mid-January<\/a>, and marginal may be as good as it gets for a while, I decided Valentine&#8217;s Day was a good opportunity to spend some quality time with Arthur. I decided earlier in the week that I <b>had<\/b> to hunt this weekend, but had been waffling about which day.  I thought hunting in the afternoon on Sunday instead of Saturday morning might compensate for the predicted 10-degree drop in temperature, and allow me a little more sleep.  But when I saw that Sunday&#8217;s temperature drop would be accompanied by 15-20 mph winds, I decided Saturday was the day.  Small field, sloppy ground, not much action, not much to blog about.  But it was a good way to spend the day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding conditions today were marginal, at best. But, since I hadn&#8217;t been on a horse since mid-January, and marginal may be as good as it gets for a while, I decided Valentine&#8217;s Day was a good opportunity to spend some quality time with Arthur. I decided earlier in the week that I had to hunt&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunting for Valentines?<\/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-252","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-44","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}