{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-04T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-05-04T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:29:09","slug":"of-angels-hippos-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/of-angels-hippos-and-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Angels, Hippos and Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/horse.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>This morning I went on a surprise adventure where I discovered my father horseback riding at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockride.org\/\">ROCK<\/a>.  What?  My dad, horseback riding?  Weekly!?! You&#8217;ve got to be kidding!  After his brain cancer, surgery, chemo and radiation therapy, I&#8217;ve grown accustom to my hero being a brilliant sloth.  In fact, I&#8217;ve been expecting him to be wheelchair bound.  So to see him decked out in his cowboy hat and boots&#8230;and riding a horse was a precious gift.  <\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of hippotherapy before.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hippotherapy is a treatment that uses the multidimensional movement of the horse; from the Greek word &#8220;hippos&#8221; which means horse. Specially trained physical, occupational and speech therapists use this medical treatment for clients who have movement dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Physically, hippotherapy can improve balance, posture, mobility and function. Hippotherapy may also affect psychological, cognitive, behavioral and communication functions for clients of all ages. Clients respond enthusiastically to this enjoyable learning experience in a natural setting.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The man that got off that horse was walking taller and feeling stronger than I&#8217;ve seen in years.     I couldn&#8217;t be more grateful for the angels (Nancy, Joan, Heidi, Pam and my wonderful Mom) who made this possible.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/horse.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>This morning I went on a surprise adventure where I discovered my father horseback riding at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockride.org\/\">ROCK<\/a>.  What?  My dad, horseback riding?  Weekly!?! You&#8217;ve got to be kidding!  After his brain cancer, surgery, chemo and radiation therapy, I&#8217;ve grown accustom to my hero being a brilliant sloth.  In fact, I&#8217;ve been expecting him to be wheelchair bound.  So to see him decked out in his cowboy hat and boots&#8230;and riding a horse was a precious gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}