{"id":367,"date":"2003-03-08T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-08T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=367"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:22:50","slug":"i-feel-better-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Better Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a horse fix. It wasn&#8217;t tremendously exciting, but at least I managed to get my butt in a saddle for the first time since <a title=\"Lazy groundhog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=393\">Groundhog Day<\/a> (that little SOB really did see his shadow). As I mentioned earlier, hunting was impossible due to the ice storm damage, but today&#8217;s warm, sunny, windy conditions, which would have made lousy hunting, were ideal for a hack around the farm with my own hounds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With hunting probably over for the season, I decided fitness work wasn&#8217;t really necessary. And with Arthur&#8217;s spirits boosted by the stiff breeze and his extended vacation, I decided that for the sake of his sanity and my safety, we&#8217;d keep things fairly conservative. We mainly just ambled around the farm and enjoyed the spring weather, with a little bit of trotting just because we couldn&#8217;t resist. My brother reported that he had seen a red fox Thursday, but my hounds never struck. Arthur behaved fairly well most of the time, although we had a couple of minor disagreements.<\/p>\n<p>It was my first opportunity to survey some of the ice storm damage. It&#8217;s impressive. There&#8217;s a lot of wood lying on the ground, and on fences. Some people are pessimistically predicting that by the time it&#8217;s all cut up, piled up, and ready to burn, we&#8217;ll be in a drought with a ban on burning. There are a few trees that I&#8217;d like to just clean the branches off of and leave them lying for jumps, but that will probably get overruled by the real farmers in the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a horse fix. It wasn&#8217;t tremendously exciting, but at least I managed to get my butt in a saddle for the first time since Groundhog Day (that little SOB really did see his shadow). As I mentioned earlier, hunting was impossible due to the ice storm damage, but today&#8217;s warm, sunny, windy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Feel Better Now<\/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-367","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-5V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}