{"id":20038,"date":"2017-09-01T21:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T02:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=20038"},"modified":"2017-09-01T21:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T02:50:01","slug":"carriage-horse-dies-on-main-street-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/carriage-horse-dies-on-main-street-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Carriage horse near death on Main Street Mall after falling; MPD shoos passersby away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/deadhorse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20039\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/deadhorse.jpg?resize=358%2C439\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/deadhorse.jpg?w=358 358w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/deadhorse.jpg?resize=245%2C300 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 85vw, 358px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 8:45 PM Friday night I got some Aldo&#8217;s pizza and headed home. As I crossed Union I saw MPD blocking the street off. A horse, which I assume was from one of the carriage companies, had collapsed. I tried to take a photo but an MPD officer told me, &#8220;Sir, you need to move on.&#8221; I posted on Facebook and got permission to post this photo taken by a friend of a friend.<\/p>\n<p>When I first visited Memphis, I rode a horse carriage, so I have a sentimental attachment. As recently as 8 years ago, I rode in one. But now I realize how inhumane these things are. It&#8217;s time to get them off our streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8:45 PM Friday night I got some Aldo&#8217;s pizza and headed home. As I crossed Union I saw MPD blocking the street off. A horse, which I assume was from one of the carriage companies, had collapsed. I tried to take a photo but an MPD officer told me, &#8220;Sir, you need to move &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/carriage-horse-dies-on-main-street-mall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carriage horse near death on Main Street Mall after falling; MPD shoos passersby away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20044,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions\/20044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->