{"id":5600,"date":"2012-07-31T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/31\/the-friendly-horses-of-ireland\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:26","slug":"the-friendly-horses-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/31\/the-friendly-horses-of-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friendly Horses of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/0a3ab-img_3760.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/0a3ab-img_3760.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While my severely strained left shoulder and a still broken Eagle are keeping me from seeing Ireland from eight feet up, I can still the Emerald Isle with <a href=\"http:\/\/hiwheel.posterous.com\/baby-cayo-a-new-light-for-the-nbg-and-hopeful\">Cayo<\/a> in tow on my &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/bent\">recumbent<\/a>. &nbsp;Here friendly horses express their curiosity &nbsp;on one of the Irish roads we travel on&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my severely strained left shoulder and a still broken Eagle are keeping me from seeing Ireland from eight feet&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/31\/the-friendly-horses-of-ireland\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duplicate","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1sk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5542,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/07\/08\/irish-scorcher-82-degrees\/","url_meta":{"origin":5600,"position":0},"title":"Irish Scorcher &#8211; 82 Degrees!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's actually hot in Ireland! 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