{"id":44,"date":"2008-02-09T19:06:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-incipient-gaucho-44.htm"},"modified":"2008-02-09T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T01:14:50","slug":"the-incipient-gaucho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-incipient-gaucho-44.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Incipient Gaucho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"top\" width=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/LeePodles\/R65Kgl5kruE\/AAAAAAAAACM\/WalB7Tpv6jQ\/s160-c\/EstanciaCristina.jpg\" height=\"160\" \/>I am preparing to mount my steed.<\/p>\n<p>His name in Spanish meant, I concluded, &#8220;Staller.&#8221; Whenever we came to a raging glacial strea, he refused to cross, no matter how hard I kicked and yelled AIII! (Giddy-up), until Augustin, our gaucho, held up his whip and said something in Spanish. My horse then decided he had meant to cross all the time, and was simply contemplating\u00a0the\u00a0beauty of the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s horse had a named that sounded like Mordrador, which she suspected meant Biter. Hers was a talkative horse, and had a long conversation with her about how hard the life of a horse was on the\u00a0Estancia Cristina.<\/p>\n<p>Her horse also did something we had never seen before. We came to a stream, very near our rooms, and in the\u00a0bed were <strong>extremely<\/strong> fresh puma tracks. Her horse took one look at the tracks\u00a0and walked backward up the\u00a0bank. I was not very happy myself, as I had been wandering alone around the estancia the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>We were assured that only very few tourists had ever been eaten by pumas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-44\" data-postid=\"44\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-44 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am preparing to mount my steed. His name in Spanish meant, I concluded, &#8220;Staller.&#8221; Whenever we came to a raging glacial strea, he refused to cross, no matter how hard I kicked and yelled AIII! (Giddy-up), until Augustin, our gaucho, held up his whip and said something in Spanish. My horse then decided he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}