{"id":5067,"date":"2011-08-11T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2011-08-11T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:13:20","slug":"new-program-pairs-rescued-horses-and-battle-scarred-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/new-program-pairs-rescued-horses-and-battle-scarred-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"New program pairs rescued horses and battle-scarred veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For Alexis Ells, who runs a horse-rescue center in Ojai, a recent Friday was a big day. Volunteers from Naval Base Ventura County, including some Seabee construction specialists, came out to help her paint a barn and tend to her horse ranch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 23 volunteers said they were happy to help, although many came not just for the sake of the horses but also for their fellow servicemen and women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ells, founder and director of The Equine Sanctuary, has launched a new program called Horse Soldiers, which aims to bring together for therapeutic purposes rescued horses and injured war veterans.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/aug\/07\/horses-and-veterans-comfort-each-other-in-ojai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Alexis Ells, who runs a horse-rescue center in Ojai, a recent Friday was a big day. Volunteers from Naval Base Ventura County, including some Seabee construction specialists, came out to help her paint a barn and tend to her horse ranch. The 23 volunteers said they were happy to help, although many came not [&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-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","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=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}