{"id":5088,"date":"2011-08-13T04:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2011-08-15T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:15:19","slug":"assateagues-wild-horses-pick-up-peoples-bad-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/assateagues-wild-horses-pick-up-peoples-bad-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Assateagues wild horses pick up peoples bad habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first thing visitors notice about Assateague Island National Seashore is this: The 114 wild horses that inhabit the beachfront park along the Atlantic Ocean have full run of the place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Summer is peak season for some 2 million tourists who visit Maryland&#8217;s Assateague Island, famed for those wild horses. But increased interaction between man and beast is causing problems with the horses&#8217; diets and behaviors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Horses are typically herbivores. But thanks to visitors who pet and feed them, park volunteer Pam Stansell says they&#8217;ve developed a taste for things like junk food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;They like everything. They&#8217;ll eat chips, hot dogs, raw meat, dog food,&#8221; says Stansell.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/10\/139261706\/assateagues-wild-horses-get-too-close-to-company\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing visitors notice about Assateague Island National Seashore is this: The 114 wild horses that inhabit the beachfront park along the Atlantic Ocean have full run of the place. Summer is peak season for some 2 million tourists who visit Maryland&#8217;s Assateague Island, famed for those wild horses. But increased interaction between man [&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-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}