{"id":1413,"date":"2016-03-29T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2016-03-29T22:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:14:55","slug":"healing-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/human-animal-bond\/healing-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a very cool story out of Mississippi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdam.com\/story\/31584456\/military-veterans-receive-healing-from-mid-south-horses\" target=\"_blank\">horses are a source of healing for veterans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oak View Stables, partnering with the VA, allows military veterans &#8212; some without any prior hands-on experience\u00a0&#8212; to a groom, handle, and ride their horses; interactions that\u00a0not only create\u00a0a bond between veteran and horse, but have the power to heal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11.5px;\"><em>&#8220;Animals have a healing power. They don&#8217;t judge. They listen. They&#8217;re gentle giants,&#8221; said Jeremiah Shields, Army veteran.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very true.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs so often take the spotlight when it comes to the realms of work, therapy, service, or simply companionship; it can be easy to forget the importance of horses and the amazing bond we share with them&#8230; but it is always great to be reminded!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1415\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HorseProfileSmall-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HorseProfileSmall\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HorseProfileSmall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HorseProfileSmall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HorseProfileSmall-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HorseProfileSmall.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1347\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"naiaLogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to forget the importance of horses and the amazing bond we share with them, but it is always great to be reminded!<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}