{"id":365,"date":"2007-05-06T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2007-05-06T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:17:42","slug":"asheville-living-horseback-riding-at-the-biltmore-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/asheville-living-horseback-riding-at-the-biltmore-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Asheville Living &#8212; Horseback Riding at the Biltmore Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/biltmorehorseback2007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539\" title=\"Asheville Living -- Horseback Riding at the Biltmore Estate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/biltmorehorseback2007.jpg\" alt=\"Asheville Living -- Horseback Riding at the Biltmore Estate\" width=\"500\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We finished a major renovation project on the house this week. So, we took a break and my daughter Paris and I rode the horses around the yard for a while. From the back the house looks a lot like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biltmore.com\/explore\/house\/about.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Biltmore estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paris&#8217;s horse was named Dusty and my trusty steed was called Cowboy. I decided to change my name to Horse for the day just to keep things weird. Our guide told me that Cowboy was a little slow and that I would have to kick him pretty often to keep him moving. Then, she said &#8220;I&#8217;m not exaggerating.&#8221; And she wasn&#8217;t. Homeboy, I mean Cowboy, was lazy. It took about 20 minutes until we came to an understanding of who was the real cowboy. After that we&#8217;re were trucking along just fine. It&#8217;s good to be back in the saddle. Yee haw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished a major renovation project on the house this week. So, we took a break and my daughter Paris and I rode the horses around the yard for a while. From the back the house looks a lot like the Biltmore estate. Paris&#8217;s horse was named Dusty and my trusty steed was called Cowboy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,16,23],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asheville-living","tag-asheville","tag-biltmore-estate","tag-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}