{"id":2808,"date":"2008-02-19T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2008-02-19T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:46:00","slug":"this-has-to-be-an-expansive-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"This has to be an expensive hobby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/02_03\/horsesDM1802_468x317.jpg\" height=\"317\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/worldnews.html?in_article_id=515508&amp;in_page_id=1811\" title=\"Daily Mail:  Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting.\">Horse Fighting<\/a> is popular in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillipines\" title=\"Wikipedia:  The Phillipines.\">Philipines<\/a>.  I would have thought this wasn&#8217;t really economically sound.  I&#8217;m not sure what a horse goes for but it can&#8217;t be cheap which leads me to believe the purse at a Horse Fighting Tournament must be enormous.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How does one train a horse for fighting?<\/li>\n<li>Are there certain breeds of horses that are better at fighting?<\/li>\n<li>Can you ride a fighting horse?<\/li>\n<li>What constitutes the end of a horse fight?<\/li>\n<li>Who pays for the horses?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s good to know the Philipines are upholding &#8216;Cultural Traditions&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Horse Fighting is popular in the Philipines. I would have thought this wasn&#8217;t really economically sound. I&#8217;m not sure what a horse goes for but it can&#8217;t be cheap which leads me to believe the purse at a Horse Fighting Tournament must be enormous. A couple of questions: How does one train a horse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-Ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}