{"id":5032,"date":"2011-08-03T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2011-08-03T00:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:14:57","slug":"horses-help-heal-wounded-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horses-help-heal-wounded-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses help heal wounded veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mary Jo Beckman and Larry Pence have life-long equine experience.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pathintl.org\/\">Mary Jo, a Master Therapeutic Riding Instructor<\/a>, says, \u201cThe Caisson Platoon Equine Assisted Therapy Program has been a team effort.\u201d Together, Mary Jo and Larry elicited the help of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/\">U.S. Army<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Nicholson_(Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs)\">Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2005 &#8211; 2007)<\/a>, the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wramc.amedd.army.mil\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Walter Reed Army Medical Center<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtondc.va.gov\/\">VA Medical Center, Washington, DC<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/info\/organization\/unitsandcommands\/commandstructure\/theoldguard\/specplt\/caisson.htm\">Caisson Platoon at Fort Myer in Arlington, VA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Recreation Therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center coordinates individuals who want to attend, assuring, \u201cthe person has proper medical clearance for riding a horse,\u201d Mary Jo explains. \u201cThe length of therapy varies because Walter Reed individuals are undergoing continuing treatments including surgeries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/animal-advocacy-in-arlington\/caisson-platoon-equine-assisted-therapy-aids-wounded-warriors#ixzz1TtPK977X\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading on Examiner.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jo Beckman and Larry Pence have life-long equine experience.\u00a0Mary Jo, a Master Therapeutic Riding Instructor, says, \u201cThe Caisson Platoon Equine Assisted Therapy Program has been a team effort.\u201d Together, Mary Jo and Larry elicited the help of the\u00a0U.S. Army,\u00a0Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2005 &#8211; 2007), the\u00a0Walter Reed Army Medical Center,\u00a0VA Medical Center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","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=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}