{"id":7378,"date":"2012-04-30T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:41:19","slug":"sorry-love-eventings-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7378","title":{"rendered":"Sorry love, Eventing’s off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a little sad that the authorities have\u00a0cancelled the 2012 Badminton Horse Trials, that was due to run this weekend.<\/p>\n

It is the right decision – if ever there’s doubt – to err on the side of caution.<\/p>\n

And let’s face it, we’ve had torrential rain in the last 48 hours. No-one knows how (or even if) the ground will dry out in time.<\/p>\n

No-one knows how the ground will stand up to 100,000 spectators, thousands of trade-stands and the competing horses.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the decision means I won’t be able to watch:<\/p>\n

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Andrew Nicholson<\/p>\n

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Andrew is, in my world at least, one of the classier riders on the professional eventing circuit.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll have to just crack on with riding Vin instead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a little sad that the authorities have\u00a0cancelled the 2012 Badminton Horse Trials, that was due to run this weekend. It is the right decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}