{"id":30361,"date":"2015-02-28T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30361"},"modified":"2015-02-22T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T21:31:04","slug":"qotd-equestrian-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/qotd-equestrian-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Equestrian statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse&#8217;s hooves: If one of the horse&#8217;s hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there&#8217;s probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you&#8217;re looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Pratchett, <em>I Shall Wear Midnight<\/em>, 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse&#8217;s hooves: If one of the horse&#8217;s hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that [&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,"_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":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[102,632],"class_list":["post-30361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-art","tag-terrypratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7TH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30362,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361\/revisions\/30362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}