{"id":1282,"date":"2007-11-26T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2007-11-26T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T21:51:18","slug":"donkeys-for-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/donkeys-for-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkeys for Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENBUSH \u2014 Susan Kilton and her daughter Carly Hakala, 34, firmly believe donkeys can work miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetpea, the smallest donkey on their farm near Greenbush, saved Carly&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My daughter has a form of mental illness that is now managed wonderfully due to her special interest and love for donkeys,&#8221; Kilton said.<\/p>\n<p>While she was in college, Carly began to exhibit odd behaviors. Although she was a bright student, Carly dropped out of school after two years and eventually was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She became a recluse of sorts, not wanting to leave the house. At times, thoughts of suicide surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071121\/FON0101\/711210429\/1289\/FONnews\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREENBUSH \u2014 Susan Kilton and her daughter Carly Hakala, 34, firmly believe donkeys can work miracles. Sweetpea, the smallest donkey on their farm near Greenbush, saved Carly&#8217;s life. &#8220;My daughter has a form of mental illness that is now managed wonderfully due to her special interest and love for donkeys,&#8221; Kilton said. While she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}