{"id":6560,"date":"2014-06-12T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:55:14","slug":"understanding-protein-in-horses-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equine-digestion\/grains\/understanding-protein-in-horses-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Protein in Horses&#8217; Diets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the components of your horse\u2019s diet, protein is probably the most misunderstood. Long assumed to function as an energy source for the body, protein mainly functions to provide amino acids (the building blocks of bones, muscles, and soft tissues) for growth and repair&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/18955\/understanding-protein-in-horses-diets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a>&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the components of your horse\u2019s diet, protein is probably the most misunderstood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,70,82,66,67,84],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-6560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-supplements","category-feeding-fats","category-feeding-performance-horses","category-grains","category-hay","category-protein","tag-protein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}