{"id":2820,"date":"2012-08-27T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2015-03-12T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T08:18:42","slug":"dressage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/dressage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dressage, a cruel and nasty<br \/>\nsport that&#8217;s if you ask me<br \/>\na totally unnatural gait<br \/>\nthat the horse does painfully<br \/>\nit was what was done when horses<br \/>\nwere taken into War<br \/>\nand to make a horse go<br \/>\nthrough all that<br \/>\nwe must ask ourselves<br \/>\nwhat for?<\/p>\n<p>the riders stiff and miserable<br \/>\nhave spurs and use them too<br \/>\nand special bits that hurt the horses<br \/>\nmouth, to make it do<br \/>\nthe kind of really stilted stuff<br \/>\nwhere no horse wants to be<br \/>\nand horses put through dressage<br \/>\nget high risk injury<br \/>\nyou can see them wince and holler<br \/>\nand a feeling person can<br \/>\npick up genuine horror<br \/>\nI&#8217;d ask now for a ban<br \/>\nto do it all to music<br \/>\nwell thats rubbing salt into<br \/>\nthe wounds it just compounds<br \/>\nthe pain, and that&#8217;s my honest view<br \/>\nCurb bits, chin chains<br \/>\ncrank nosebands, spurs<br \/>\nand Rolikur<br \/>\nhyperflexion of the horse&#8217;s neck<br \/>\ndo you concur?<br \/>\nits  all down  to aggressive force<br \/>\nas the poor horse suffers so<br \/>\nthe crowd roars and the band plays<br \/>\nand the horse&#8217;s tears just flow<br \/>\nit has been noted tongues<br \/>\nturn blue<br \/>\nits torture so to say<br \/>\na vile and nasty test of whether<br \/>\nthe horse should have to pay<br \/>\nriders choose to work with<br \/>\nthe neck lowered to the chest<br \/>\nwhatever people think is right or wrong<br \/>\nThey know what&#8217;s best<br \/>\nat picking up<br \/>\nthe honours,and the gongs<br \/>\nat the same time<br \/>\nstretching the horses back<br \/>\nthrough a great series of wrongs<br \/>\nhorses should not be put through this<br \/>\nits actually a crime<br \/>\nby supporting it you are saying<br \/>\nits alright from time to time<br \/>\nBoycott Dressage from Today<br \/>\nif you are asked to go<br \/>\nTell them its a vile cruel sport<br \/>\nand you do not want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to ask yourselves how a grown horse is made to walk and almost dance in that peculiar way<br \/>\nwell its done with various cruel methods and should be banned <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/dressage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}