{"id":28323,"date":"2008-01-27T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/01\/27\/28323-gandalf-the-horse-wants-to-go-to-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T06:08:23","slug":"gandalf-the-horse-wants-to-go-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/01\/27\/28323-gandalf-the-horse-wants-to-go-to-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandalf (the Horse) wants to go to the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:FRzGmAh3MXrriM:http:\/\/www.horse-directory.co.uk\/horse01.jpg\" alt=\"Gandalf (the Horse) wants to go to the Olympics\" width=\"94\" height=\"125\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> <strong>Horsegirl<\/strong> writes: Olympic champion Event rider, Mark Todd (of New Zealand) has a new mount he&#8217;s going to try to go to this year&#8217;s Olympics with. The horse&#8217;s name is GANDALF! Fits, doesn&#8217; it- being a New Zealand -bred horse. There&#8217;s an American rider who rides a horse called Frodo Baggins. And it goes on and on&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org.nz\/Athletes\/AthleteProfile.aspx?Print=&#038;ContactID=513&#038;id=3774\">Mark Todd&#8217;s Olympic Profile<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: It turns out that &#8220;Frodo Baggins&#8221; is a 13 year old black New Zealand bred Thoroughbred who actually starred as one of the Black Rider&#8217;s mounts in FOTR!!  He even walked down the red carpet at the premiere of the film with Elijah Woods himself. <\/p>\n<p>For more about &#8220;Frodo Baggins&#8221; and his rider Lainey Ashker, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rk3de.org\/featured_rider.php?id=12 \n\">here.<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Roheryn for doing a little more digging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horsegirl writes: Olympic champion Event rider, Mark Todd (of New Zealand) has a new mount he&#8217;s going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-28323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-mark-todd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7mP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}