{"id":461,"date":"2002-11-02T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-02T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:43","slug":"stuck-at-home-on-a-beautiful-blessing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Stuck at home on a beautiful blessing day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Saturday in November, St. Hubert&#8217;s Day, opening of the formal hunting season with the traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/foxhunting\/blessing.html\">Blessing of the Hounds<\/a>. The weather is perfect, a crisp sunny fall day with temperatures in the 40&#8217;s.  And I&#8217;m missing it, for the first time in I can&#8217;t remember how many years, because Arthur&#8217;s booboo from an encounter with a T-post 3 weeks ago is still healing. I guess I just have to hope last year&#8217;s St. Hubert&#8217;s medal has enough mojo left in it to get me through another season.  Maybe if I&#8217;d been carrying it 3 weeks ago, I could be riding today.  Actually, Arthur&#8217;s injury was fortunately just superficial, much less severe than it could have been in that situation. I had it sutured the day it happened, and it looked like it would heal neatly and quickly. But after a couple of weeks, the stitches and flap of skin sloughed off, leaving him with a raw patch that needs to heal instead of a little seam.  It really doesn&#8217;t seem to be causing him any discomfort; it certainly doesn&#8217;t keep him from ripping around the pasture like a maniac.  He probably wouldn&#8217;t mind being ridden, but it still looks a little gory and it just doesn&#8217;t seem appropriate to hunt him with an eyesore like that, especially on a high holy day. Also, if we bumped it on anything, it would probably kock off some of the scab and set the healing back more. I took a <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blogpix\/wound.jpg\">picture<\/a> of it this morning, and decided it would be better to link to it instead of embedding it here and making people look at it every time they loaded this page.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Saturday in November, St. Hubert&#8217;s Day, opening of the formal hunting season with the traditional Blessing of the Hounds. The weather is perfect, a crisp sunny fall day with temperatures in the 40&#8217;s. And I&#8217;m missing it, for the first time in I can&#8217;t remember how many years, because Arthur&#8217;s booboo from an encounter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stuck at home on a beautiful blessing day<\/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-461","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-7r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}