{"id":4425,"date":"2021-02-01T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:58:44","slug":"calm-and-confident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"Calm and Confident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 700px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4425-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/02\/My-Movie-23.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/02\/My-Movie-23.mp4\">https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/02\/My-Movie-23.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">I got Heildorf because he was started. I &#8216;thought&#8217; it would be nice to have one horse who was ready to ride without needing too much work. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">Boy was I wrong. He was so badly traumatized by his starting that he not only needs started over but lots of help overcoming the trauma from complete learned helplessness. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">So he spends most of his time hanging out in the pasture. I wanted to teach a horse to jump through a hoop though so he got to come play.<br \/>\nIt was quickly apparent that he would have to learn to work calmly with me first. Nothing could be accomplished if he ran in terror every time I asked him to go forward. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">This is three days work. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">The first day he nearly drug me off my feet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">The second day he was able to control himself and was beginning to realize he didn&#8217;t have to run from me. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">The third day we tried working in just a neck rope. Not up to trotting yet but calm and controlled. With me because he wants to be not because he can&#8217;t escape. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\">We will keep building from here and hopefully overcome his fear of people.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I got Heildorf because he was started. I &#8216;thought&#8217; it would be nice to have one horse who was ready to ride without needing too much work. Boy was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}