{"id":54,"date":"2007-07-24T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:36:54","slug":"but-hes-always-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"But he&#8217;s ALWAYS awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve been a negligent cad, so I&#8217;ll attempt to belatedly atone for my sin of omission.  The weekend before last, Crossbo and I joined some of our buddies at Masterson Station Park for a romp around the cross-country course.  It was recently brought to my attention that I had dissed him by failing to muse here about how wonderful he was.  So I&#8217;ll try to give him the credit he well deserves.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the reason I hadn&#8217;t bragged on him was that he was no better than usual.  Sure, he was awesome.  But he&#8217;s <b>always<\/b> awesome, so I thought maybe that was ceasing to be newsworthy.  He didn&#8217;t do anything spectacular that he&#8217;s never done before, although that was probably due more to my own limitations than his.  Masterson does have some interesting challenges, so we might have to schedule a return excursion to see if we can raise the bar a little.<\/p>\n<p>\nI must point out that when I say &#8220;no better than usual&#8221;, that I have not become spoiled and unappreciative.  Although Crossbo&#8217;s sheer magnificence is no longer a surprise, it is still a great joy.  I do fully understand how fortunate I am.  In fact, I proclaimed to all within earshot at Masterson that I love my horse, and felt a surge of parental pride when someone replied &#8220;You should!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut apparently that vocalization of my admiration wasn&#8217;t enough, and it needs to be broadcast on the Interweb to be viewed by all those who accidentally stumble in here looking for doughnuts or Natalie Maines.  So here it is.  <b>CROSSBO IS AWESOME!<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve been a negligent cad, so I&#8217;ll attempt to belatedly atone for my sin of omission. The weekend before last, Crossbo and I joined some of our buddies at Masterson Station Park for a romp around the cross-country course. It was recently brought to my attention that I had dissed him by failing to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But he&#8217;s ALWAYS awesome!<\/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-54","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-S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}