{"id":8445,"date":"2023-03-01T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:51:55","slug":"heavy-horse-at-work-in-chiswick-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/heavy-horse-at-work-in-chiswick-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Horse at Work in Chiswick Park!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"591\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park-1024x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Shire-Horse-dragging-logs-in-Chiswick-Park.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What a fine sight, a Shire Horse at work pulling logs out of the woods at Chiswick Park!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team of two men were soft-spoken Irish and efficient, unflappable even when one dog after another came excitedly up to investigate the unusual scent. The actual moving of each batch of logs took a few seconds and was amazingly hard to photograph as most of the action was on narrow temporary paths among the trees. Of course that is exactly why a horse is better than a tractor, as there is no need to cut new roads through the woods to extract the lumber, and no danger of getting stuck in the mud either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team of two men were soft-spoken Irish and efficient, unflappable even when one dog after another came excitedly up to investigate the unusual scent. The actual moving of each batch of logs took a few seconds and was amazingly hard to photograph as most of the action was on narrow temporary paths among the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/heavy-horse-at-work-in-chiswick-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heavy Horse at Work in Chiswick Park!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[113,1739,1737,1738],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-chiswick-park","tag-extracting-lumber","tag-shire-horse","tag-working-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8447,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/8447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}