{"id":8345,"date":"2010-02-04T06:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:04:46","slug":"around-the-mob-forrest-chad-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Forrest Chad Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next stop on the MOB tour: Forrest Chad Wilkinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve never met Wilkinson (that I know of), but I feel like I read him a lot anyway; he’s fairly prolific on Facebook.\u00a0 But his blog is fairly new by MOB standards; it started last year.<\/p>\n

Wilkinson reads like a classic tea party libertarian\/conservative.\u00a0 He’s a Navy veteran – a sonarman, who seems to have that “sonarman” personality in his writing (and if you know enough “bubbleheads”, you know what I mean).\u00a0 But he’s also a stable hand for a living, a line of work I hadn’t encountered since I left North Dakota.<\/p>\n

And I liked this “day in the life of a stable hand” piece<\/a>, from which I’ll excerpt a bit:<\/p>\n

Some, when taken together go at such different paces that you are nearly pulled in two between the slow poke and the “I want my hay” quick-stepper. Lots of pulling in both directions can leave you very frustrated, especially when your trying to shut a paddock gate snaphook and chain. Ahggg!<\/p>\n

Sheesh, lets get these animals out of the barn and get some peace and quiet so we can get the stalls cleaned.<\/p>\n

Some, like Sulivan, are such a pacing bother that they go out early and, being part of a set of four, he can go out with Max right now. Then I can get Dancer out on the return and start to take advantage of the back and forth pattern as I enter and leave one end of the barn, then the other, leading horses out to paddocks and their morning hay.<\/p>\n

It’s kinda like being a bartender at an unruly road house, or a manager at a hotel with very noisy and demanding customers.<\/p>\n

You can’t lead these <\/span>two together but you can those<\/span> two, but one has to have his halter removed at the paddock gate, he has a sore that is healing on the nose.<\/p>\n

And on and on it goes, every day at many horse barns throughout Minnesota, as it has for decades, centuries…<\/p>\n

And this barn eventually returns to a relatively normal routine as the horses go out into this winter wonder-land, snorting and stomping into paddocks, jumping and kicking…and rolling, lots and lots of rolling and then getting up and shaking and settling into some nice hay.<\/p>\n

Now to clean the stalls.<\/p>\n

It is kind of fun in its own annoying way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So check out Forrest Chad Wilkinson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next stop on the MOB tour: Forrest Chad Wilkinson. I’ve never met Wilkinson (that I know of), but I feel like I read him a lot anyway; he’s fairly prolific on Facebook.\u00a0 But his blog is fairly new by MOB standards; it started last year. Wilkinson reads like a classic tea party libertarian\/conservative.\u00a0 He’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}