{"id":4054,"date":"2019-06-17T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:28:45","slug":"going-back-for-the-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Going Back for the Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the horns of a dilemma. It was an early Sunday morning in Vermont. The sky was clear blue, flora lush green, and the golden early light made the landscape look right out of a postcard.\u00a0 I was driving down Route 30 in Townshend, VT on the way to rendezvous with my wife and her friend. \u00a0The plan was I&#8217;d pick my wife up and we&#8217;d head home to Boston. Her friend would return home to New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4064\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_101114-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_101114-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_101114-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_101114-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I followed the winding road, I went by a field with horses.\u00a0 As my car raced along the winding road alongside the river, I wished I had taken a picture.\u00a0 I thought about going back. I didn&#8217;t want to be late but it would only be a minute. And it was at that moment I learned a wonderful life lesson:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes you have to go back for the horses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2019 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the horns of a dilemma. It was an early Sunday morning in Vermont. The sky was clear blue, flora lush green, and the golden early light made the landscape look right out of a postcard.\u00a0 I was driving down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}