{"id":72,"date":"2020-12-11T21:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-12-11T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:46:21","slug":"why-invest-in-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Why Invest in Horses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a common question.<br>\u201cSo my child will learn to sit on a horse. Why is it worth the investment?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is long, complex, and I will surely miss a few points that I\u2019d like to make. That being said\u2026 Let\u2019s start here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By working alongside horses, your student will develop a great many things!<br>-Empathy<br>-Teamwork<br>-Resiliency<br>-Hard Work<br>-Persistence<br>-Patience<br>-Critical Thinking<br>-Creative Problem-Solving<br>-Good Sportsmanship<br>-Positive Mindset<br>-The Thrill of accomplishment!<br>-The Bitterness of Defeat<br>-Building and Retaining Muscle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with horses will challenge your student in a great many ways as horses all have unique personalities and often bring about some of the challenges that you face with people throughout life. The difference is that they\u2019re more forgiving and won\u2019t tell the rest of the herd what you might have done to embarrass yourself or make them mad! Even if you have a bad day, you can always come out the following day and have a brand new conversation with your partner. To me, the lessons that you learn working with horses are some of the important ones that you can carry with you throughout life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common question.\u201cSo my child will learn to sit on a horse. Why is it worth the investment?\u201d The answer is long, complex, and I will surely miss a few points that I\u2019d like to make. That being said\u2026 Let\u2019s start here. By working alongside horses, your student will develop a great many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Invest in Horses?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kottmanequestrian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}