{"id":56,"date":"2011-04-21T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-06-02T00:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:38:04","slug":"queen-elizabeth-and-her-birthday-horse-burmese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth and her birthday horse, Burmese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 512px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/?attachment_id=57\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57\" title=\"70287516yl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/70287516yl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/70287516yl.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/70287516yl-150x130.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/70287516yl-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Elizabeth and Burmese in 1986. AP photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For 17 years Queen Elizabeth rode sidesaddle to her birthday parade, Trooping the Colour, on her horse Burmese.<\/p>\n<p>How would you like to have &#8220;must be able to ride sidesaddle&#8221; in your job description?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/06\/30\/royal-tour-elizabeth-ii-the-accidental-monarch\/\">The Queen and Burmese<\/a> practiced each year in the gardens at Buckingham Palace. They survived some unseasonably hot parade days, and even being shot at.<\/p>\n<p>When Burmese retired, the Queen changed over to an open carriage for the parade (a la Queen Victoria) and Burmese moved to Windsor Castle&#8217;s Great Park.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the Queen&#8217;s birthday. Wishing Her Majesty many happy returns!<\/p>\n<p>The birthday parade will not take place until next month. Don&#8217;t ask. It&#8217;s one of those British things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 17 years Queen Elizabeth rode sidesaddle to her birthday parade, Trooping the Colour, on her horse Burmese. How would you like to have &#8220;must be able to ride sidesaddle&#8221; in your job description? The Queen and Burmese practiced each year in the gardens at Buckingham Palace. They survived some unseasonably hot parade days, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,89,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-queen-elizabeth-ii","category-windsors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arightroyalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}