{"id":5339,"date":"2017-06-03T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:53:43","slug":"horse-bog-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/horse-bog-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse bog shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5340\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1168-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not a mask, but it looks like one. For years there have always been a few people who like to collect surprise art objects for their walls. I love this guy and will categorize him under &#8220;Misc.&#8221; Part of the fun is trying to guess what it really is. Here&#8217;s the story.<\/p>\n<p>In earlier times horses were employed to work in bogs and marshes where there was a danger of the horse sinking and getting stuck. Bog shoes of cut wood were strapped onto the horse&#8217;s hooves to allow the horse to stay above the bog. Think of how a snow shoe works. The bog shoe is big and has holes and a slot made to receive flanges on the\u00a0 horse&#8217;s shoes. Iron bolts on the sides would receive a flange element to make it all work.\u00a0 Bob, 1168<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a mask, but it looks like one. For years there have always been a few people who like to collect surprise art objects for their walls. I love this guy and will categorize him under &#8220;Misc.&#8221; Part of the fun is trying to guess what it really is. Here&#8217;s the story. In earlier times horses were employed to work in bogs and marshes where there was a danger of the horse sinking and getting stuck. Bog shoes of cut wood were strapped onto the horse&#8217;s hooves to allow the horse to stay above the bog. Think of how a snow shoe works. The bog shoe is big and has holes and a slot made to receive flanges on the\u00a0 horse&#8217;s shoes. Iron bolts on the sides would receive a flange element to make it all work.\u00a0 Bob, 1168 Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}