{"id":17413,"date":"2015-11-23T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17413"},"modified":"2015-11-12T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:40:17","slug":"horse-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17413","title":{"rendered":"Horse &#038; Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horse-drawn transportation is quite common in Nicaragua.  Everywhere we went horses were a common sight on the road.  This was not only a feature of more rural areas, even in major cities you will encounter horse powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>I found the use of horses for basic transport rather pleasant, though I only had a brief ride at one of the farms.  With one or two exceptions, the horses looked well cared for and in excellent shape.  The horse is still a practical and cost effective form of transportation in much of the world.  I wonder if we in the US, under pressure from rising oil prices, will once again find the horse a practical form of transport as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17410\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=17410\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17410\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CH68-24-15303-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Horesecart\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17410\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A horsecart in the streets of Grenada, Nicaragua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse-drawn transportation is quite common in Nicaragua. Everywhere we went horses were a common sight on the road. This was not only a feature of more rural areas, even in major cities you will encounter horse powered vehicles. I found the use of horses for basic transport rather pleasant, though I only had a brief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horse &#038; Cart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2150],"tags":[761,2176],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17415,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413\/revisions\/17415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}